Elizabeth J. Drake

Elizabeth J. Drake (born 1975) is a Washington, D.C. attorney in private practice and is a nominee to be a United States Judge of the United States Court of International Trade.

Biography

Drake received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1996 from the University of California at Berkeley. She received a Juris Doctor in 1999 from Harvard Law School. From 1999 to 2005, she served as an international policy analyst at the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO), where she advocated for workers’ rights in trade and international economic policies. In addition, she has served on the Labor Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations to the United States Trade Representative. She is currently a partner at in the law firm of Stewart and Stewart, where her practice focuses on international trade law matters and where she advises clients on disputes before the World Trade Organization. In addition to practicing before the United States Court of International Trade, she also practices before the United States Department of Commerce, the United States International Trade Commission and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.^[1]

Nomination to trade court

On July 30, 2015, President Obama nominated Drake to serve as a United States Judge of the United States Court of International Trade, to the seat vacated by Judge Richard K. Eaton, who took senior status on August 22, 2014. Her nomination is currently pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.^[2]

She received a hearing on her nomination on January 27, 2016.^[3]

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