Deanna Tanner Okun

Deanna Tanner Okun is International Trade Commission Section 337 Litigation & Trade Remedies Chair with Polsinelli LLP.

She served 12 years as a member of the ITC, including two terms as chair. During her tenure as a commissioner, she ruled on hundreds of cases involving allegations of patent, trademark and copyright infringement, antidumping and countervailing duty ,global safeguard investigations under the Trade Act of 1974, including investigations under Section 201 and the China-specific safeguard investigations under Section 421.

Prior to her appointment to the ITC, she served as counsel for international affairs to U.S. Senator Frank Murkowski, Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and senior member of the Finance and Foreign Relations Committees, and practiced international trade law with a large Washington, D.C.-based law firm.