Nancy Paterson
American lawyer
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| Intro | American lawyer | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Judge Prosecutor | |
| Work field | Law | |
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| Birth | 25 April 1953 | |
| Death | 27 March 2010 (aged 56 years) | |
| Star sign | Taurus |
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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.
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 law degree from Syracuse Law in the early 1980s.