Jon Dudas earned a B.S. in finance from the University of Illinois and a law degree from the University of Chicago. A member of the Illinois State Bar and the Bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Dudas practiced law in the Chicago law firm of Neal Gerber & Eisenberg before joining the House of Representatives as Counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, and Staff Director and Deputy General Counsel for the House Judiciary Committee. In 1998, when he was 30 years old, Dudas was the Republican staff director in the House’s efforts to impeach President Clinton.   In February 2001, he took over as senior floor assistant for Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). Dudas joined the USPTO in 2002, and served as Deputy Director, Deputy Under Secretary and acting Under Secretary and Director before being nominated by President Bush and appointed to Under Secretary and Director in 2004. Dudas contributed to the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004.