Joseph Lamb Bodine
Joseph Lamb Bodine (November 6, 1883 – June 10, 1950) was a United States federal judge.
Biography
Born in Trenton, New Jersey, Bodine received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1905 and an LL.B. from Harvard University in 1908. He was in private practice in Trenton, New Jersey from 1908 to 1919. He was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1919 to 1920.
On May 28, 1920, Bodine was nominated by President Woodrow Wilson to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey vacated by J. Warren Davis. Bodine was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 2, 1920, and received his commission the same day. Bodine served in that capacity until his resignation from the federal bench on March 31, 1929. He then took a seat as an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1929 to 1948.
He died in Trenton, New Jersey in 1950.
Sources
- Joseph Lamb Bodine at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- 1883 births
- 1950 deaths
- Princeton University alumni
- Harvard Law School alumni
- United States Attorneys for the District of New Jersey
- Judges of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
- United States district court judges appointed by Woodrow Wilson
- 20th-century American judges
- New Jersey Supreme Court justices