Earlier this week the United States Tax Court announced that Judge Maurice B. Foley has been elected Chief Judge to serve a two-year term beginning on June 1, 2018.

Judge Foley was appointed President William J. Clinton on April 9, 1995. He was reappointed by President Barack Obama on November 25, 2011, for a second term ending November 24, 2026. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Swarthmore College, a juris doctor from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a master of laws in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center. Before his appointment to the Tax Court, he was an attorney for the Legislation and Regulations Division of the Internal Revenue Service, Tax Counsel for the United States Senate Committee on Finance, and Deputy Tax Legislative Counsel in the United States Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy. Judge Foley is an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law, the University of Colorado Law School, and the University of Baltimore School of Law.

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