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Tom Coffin
Tom Coffin worked 45 years as a federal prosecutor and U.S. magistrate judge before retiring in 2016 from the bench. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1970 and is a lifelong practicing Catholic. He lives in Oregon with his wife of 48 years.