Clark S. Cheney is an Administrative Law Judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission. Prior to his appointment at the ITC, Judge Cheney served as an ALJ with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Social Security Administration. He worked in the ITC’s Office of the General Counsel for several years prior to becoming an ALJ. In that role, he regularly argued appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on behalf of the ITC. During several years of private practice, he represented domestic and international clients in intellectual property litigation. He began his career as a patent examiner and served as a law clerk to Judge William Bryson at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.