James E. Rogan, former United States Congressman from and Superior Court judge from California, is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the UCLA School of Law, where he served as a member of the UCLA Law Review.

As a Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney, he specialized in the prosecution of Crips and Bloods gang murderers; California Lawyer Magazine named him as one of the state’s most effective prosecutors. Appointed by Governor Deukmejian at age 33, he became California’s youngest sitting judge at the time, and his colleagues later selected him as presiding judge.

In 1994, Judge Rogan won election to the California State Assembly. In his freshman term, colleagues elected him Majority Leader. California Journal Magazine named him the Assembly’s most effective legislator, and ranked him “number one in integrity” And “number one in effectiveness.”

In 1996, he won the first of two terms in Congress, and was one of only two members of Congress to serve on both the prestigious House Commerce and House Judiciary Committees. His colleagues selected him to be one of the two lead prosecutors in the historic United States Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. With the Clinton impeachment very unpopular in his Los Angeles County district, he lost his battle for a third term in 2000.

President George W. Bush selected Judge Rogan as the Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate, he served as chief advisor to the president on all intellectual property matters. He left the Bush Administration in 2004 and returned to private law practice in Orange County until rejoining the bench in 2006 as a judge of the Superior Court of California, where he served as a felony trial judge in Orange County, California until his retirement in 2023.

Judge Rogan and his wife Christine have twin daughters, Dana and Claire. They live in Southern California.