Bohdan A. Futey
American judge
Bohdan Andrew Futey (Ukrainian: Богда́н Петрович Футе́й; born June 28, 1939) is a senior judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.
Early life, education, and career
Futey was born to parents Petro and Maria Futey in 1939 in Buczacz, Poland (now Buchach, Ukraine). In 1943, his family moved to refugee camps in Germany and later immigrated to Argentina, where Futey graduated from high school. In 1957, his family moved to the United States. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1962.
He received a Bachelor of Arts from Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University in 1962. He was a teacher at Glenville High School in Cleveland, Ohio from 1962 to 1966, receiving a Master of Arts from Western Reserve University in 1964. He received his Juris Doctor at Cleveland–Marshall College of Law in 1968, and thereafter entered private practice in Parma, Ohio until 1972, as a founding partner in the law firm of Futey & Rakowsky.
He was then the chief assistant police prosecutor of Cleveland from 1972 to 1974. In 1974, Futey also unsuccessfully ran for Congress as an independent, garnering 1.7% of the vote.
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