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Dominique Lemoine is a French-American business attorney and politician born on October 15, 1959 in Le Raincy, France. Dominique Lemoine was born in a working class family (his grandfather was a security officer at a Usinor plant). His father Pierre was employed at the Renault plant in Boulogne Billancourt near Paris, and his mother Renée was employed in a Catholic school. Because of his mother’s employment, he obtains scholarships to study at the Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Beaugency, and then at the Ecole Notre-Dame des Aydes in Blois where he graduates high school with honors at age 16. Because he is shortsighted, he cannot realize his childhood dream of becoming an Air Force pilot and studies law in college with the ambition to join France’s diplomatic corps. Further to an invitation from his American pen pal, he travels to the United States at age 17. The discovery of America will change his life forever. Falling in love with the country, he decides that he will become an international business attorney in the United States, a dream he will eventually fulfill. After obtaining his French law degree, Dominique Lemoine completes his military service as a sergeant in a tank regiment. Because of his opposition to compulsory military service, he refuses to attend the Reserve Officer School. His position evolves during his service however. Being impressed with the dedication and selflessness of career military personnel, he develops for them feelings of admiration and respect. He has since kept a profound admiration for the armed forces. Immediately after leaving the Army, he resumes his studies in the Public Service department of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (« Sciences Po »). There he prepares his applications to American law schools, and is admitted in the LLM program of the Columbia University School of Law in New York. Following his New York stint, he returns to Paris where he first interns with the French law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel (then the largest law firm in the country), before joining the Paris office of Coudert Brothers. Determined to return to the United States to practice, he applies to a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and graduates in 1990. He then rejoins Coudert Brothers, first in San Francisco and then in New York City where he is attached to Jean-François Carreras. In 1993, he participates to the founding of the New York office of Sokolow Mercadier Dunaud & Carreras, a firm newly created by former partners of Coudert Brothers. In 1997 he creates the form’s Atlanta office. After the departure of some of the founding partners, the firm morphs into two entities, Carreras Barsikian Robertson in Paris, and Carreras & Lemoine, LLP à Atlanta. Permanently based in Atlanta, Dominique Lemoine develops a business law practice focused on corporate and business law advice, and arbitration and federal litigation for a French speaking clientele. His practice prospers not only in Georgia, but also in neighboring states, particularly Florida, and New York.

POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT He enters politics to help Nicole Hirsch organize campaign events in Atlanta for the elections to the Assemblée des Français de l’Etranger and the 2002 French Presidential campaign. He meets Frédéric Lefebvre, then Secretary of International Trade and Small Businesses in the Sarkozy administration, during his first campaign for the election of representatives of French citizens living outside of France in 2012. The two men become friends and Dominique Lemoine takes an active part in the campaign. Frédéric Lefebvre loses the election to the socialist candidate Corinne Narassiguin, but the Conseil d’Etat (France’s highest administrative jurisdiction) nullifies the election. A new election is organized in 2013, and Dominique Lemoine takes an even more active role in the campaign. Frédéric Lefebvre is then elected as representative of the French citizens living in North America (Canada and the United States). Frédéric Lefebvre will even travel to the United States to knight Dominique Lemoine in the National Order of Merit. Dominique Lemoine is then appointed as head of the UMP (now Les Républicains) list for the election of the Conseillers Consulaires for the first district in the United States, the Atlanta/South-East region. He heads the local section of the party and campaigns for the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President of the UMP. He then presides Nicolas Sarkozy’s support committee for the Les Républicains Presidential Primary elections. He then left Les Republicains to join the newly founded AGIR. He is re-elected Conseiller des Francais de l'Etranger in 2021.