Dan A. Polster | |
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 Judge Polster c. 2000 | |
| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | |
| Assumed office January 31, 2021 | |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | |
| In office August 3, 1998 – January 31, 2021 | |
| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | David Dudley Dowd Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Bridget M. Brennan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 6, 1951 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, JD) |
Dan Aaron Polster (born December 6, 1951) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Polster mediated a settlement between the city of Cleveland and the family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy who was killed by a white police officer in 2014. In December 2017, a federal judicial panel selected Polster to preside over more than 3,000 consolidated prescription opioid-related lawsuits in multidistrict litigation known as the National Prescription Opiate Litigation. A trial for the litigation began in October 2021.