Mary Ann Cohen (born July 16, 1943 in Albuquerque, New Mexico)[1] is an American lawyer who serves as a senior judge of the United States Tax Court.
Cohen attended public schools in Los Angeles before earning a Bachelor of Science from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1964 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California Law School in 1967.
From 1959 to 1966 she served a bookkeeper and later secretary for two family-owned businesses in Los Angeles.
From 1966 to 1967 she worked as a legal researcher for multiple lawyers based in Los Angeles.
Barack Obama nominated Tamara W. Ashford of Virginia to the U.S. Senate for a fifteen-year term, to succeed her.