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Nancy Paterson (lawyer)

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Nancy Lou Paterson (April 25, 1953, Binghamton, New York – March 27, 2010, Bethesda, Maryland) was an international war crimes prosecutor, and a lead attorney in the United Nations' prosecution of Slobodan Milošević.[1]

Prior to her U.N. commission, Paterson was a prosecutor for the Manhattan district attorney's office. She obtained a bachelor's degree from Miami University in Ohio, and her J.D. degree from Syracuse Law in the early 1980s.

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  1. ^ DENNIS HEVESI, "Nancy Paterson, Who Aided in Milosevic Investigation, Dies at 56", The New York Times, April 7, 2010