The Honorable James P. Donohue U.S. District Court, Seattle Hon. James P. Donohue was appointed United States Magistrate Judge for the Western District of Washington on February 8, 2005. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Donohue was a shareholder in the Seattle office of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, LLP. He served as chair of the Intellectual Property Section of the Washington State Bar Association and has also been involved with the American Bar Association Model Jury Instruction project for intellectual property cases. He is the author of Chapter 9, Personal Jurisdiction, of West’s treatise Internet Law and Practice.Judge Donohue received his A.B. from the University of Illinois in 1973, and his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1976, where he was a member of the UCLA Law Review. After his graduation, he served as a VISTA volunteer before going into private practice.Since coming to the bench, Judge Donohue has worked on local rules for patent litigation in the Western District of Washington and serves on the Ninth Circuit Pro Se Committee. He is also a member of the Federal Magistrate Judge Education Committee. (05/09)