Donald C. Coggins, Jr.

Donald Cecil Coggins, Jr. (born July 17, 1959) is a South Carolina attorney in private practice and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.

Biography

Coggins is a native of Spartanburg, South Carolina, born July 17, 1959.^[1][2] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981 from Clemson University. He received a Juris Doctor in 1984 from the University of South Carolina School of Law. He began his legal career as an associate at the law firm of Cummings and Smith, from 1984 to 1986, and became a named partner at the successor firms of Cummings, Smith and Coggins, from 1986 to 1993, and Smith and Coggins, from 1993 to 2000, all three firms located in Spartanburg. Since 2000, he has been a shareholder at the law firm of Harrison, White, Smith & Coggins, P.C. (formerly Harrison, White, Smith, Hayes & Coggins, P.C.), where his practice focuses on civil litigation. From 2010 to 2013, he was the firm's managing shareholder. Coggins also serves as a member of the South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct, a position to which he was appointed in 2003.^[3]

Nomination to district court

On February 25, 2016, President Obama nominated Coggins to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, to the seat vacated by Judge Joseph Fletcher Anderson, Jr., who took senior status on November 16, 2014.^[4] On June 21, 2016 a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was held on his nomination.^[5] On July 14, 2016 his nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote.^[6] His nomination is now pending before the full Senate.

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