Allegra Kent Allegra Kent Allegra Kent (born August 11, 1937) is an American ballet dancer, actress, children's book author and columnist. Iris Margo Cohen was born to Jewish parents, Harry Herschel and Shirley (née Weissman) Cohen, and later changed her name to Allegra Kent. Kent grew up in what she later described as a dysfunctional environment. In "Once a Dancer: An Autobiography", she describes her Texan father – "who liked to substitute 'Cowboy' for Herschel" – as having "a gambler's soul and a restless nature". She describes her Wisznice-born immigrant mother as feeling "neither European nor American; she was ashamed of her
Francis Allegra and then Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General of the Tax Division. In 1994, Allegra was appointed Counselor to the Associate Attorney General (the third-highest-ranking official at the Justice Department). Shortly after that, he was appointed Deputy Associate Attorney General. In the latter role, Judge Allegra worked with the Tax and Antitrust Divisions, as well as with the National Economic and Domestic Policy Councils at the White House. On October 22, 1998, at the age of forty-one, Judge Allegra was appointed by President Bill Clinton to be a judge on the United States Court of Federal Claims. Over his judicial