Emin Toro

Emin Toro
Personal details
Born (1974-11-10) November 10, 1974[1]
Albania
Education Palm Beach Atlantic University (BA)
University of North Carolina School of Law (JD)

Emin Toro (born November 10, 1974) is an American lawyer and is a nominee to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court.

Biography

Toro was born in Albania, the son of Lavdia and Sali Toro. His father was a director for a furniture manufacturing company and his mother was the artistic director for a puppet theater. While in his teens, he met Dan Burrell, a Royal Palm Beach minister who went to Albania for Christian mission work in an orphanage. Toro was chosen to be the interpreter. After the mission was over, Burrell invited Toro to accompany him to the United States and attend college there.[2]

Toro received a Bachelor of Arts from Palm Beach Atlantic University and a Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law, where he was inducted into Order of the Coif and was articles editor for the North Carolina Law Review. After law school, Toro clerked for Judge Karen L. Henderson of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States. Toro is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. He currently is a partner at Covington & Burling.[3][4]

Nomination to tax court

On April 10, 2018, President Trump nominated Toro to serve as a Judge of the United States Tax Court. He was nominated to the seat vacated by Judge Joseph Robert Goeke, whose term expired on April 21, 2018. His nomination is currently pending before the Senate Finance Committee.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Emin Toro, 43 - McLean, VA - MyLife.com™ Background Profile". www.mylife.com.
  2. ↑ "Grad From Albania Overcomes Hardships".
  3. ↑ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Twelfth Wave of Judicial Nominees, Twelfth Wave of United States Attorneys, and Sixth Wave of United States Marshals". whitehouse.gov. April 10, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2018. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ↑ "Emin Toro bio". Covington & Burling. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Ten Nominations Sent to the Senate Today", The White House, April 10, 2018


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