 In January 2007, President George W. Bush nominated Rogan to be a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Central District of California, but the Senate failed to act on the nomination before the expiration of Bush's term in office.Rogan dropped out of high school in the tenth grade to work.Although he never completed high school formally, Rogan attended Chabot Community College — now Las Positas Community College — in Livermore, before earning a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California at Berkeley, and later his Juris Doctor degree from UCLA Law School, where he was a member of the UCLA Law Review.