List of Jewish American jurists

This is a list of famous Jewish American jurists.

For other famous Jewish Americans, see Lists of American Jews.

Supreme Court of the United States

Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1916–1939
Stephen G. Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1994–present
Benjamin N. Cardozo, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1932–1938
Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1965–1969
Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1939–1962
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1993–present
Arthur J. Goldberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1962–1965
Elena Kagan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 2010-present

Activists and scholars

Gloria Allred (1941–), lawyer and radio talk show host^[1]
Eric Brown, first Jewish Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, 2010
Thomas Buergenthal, U.S. judge on the International Court of Justice
Alan Dershowitz, U.S. lawyer, professor at Harvard Law School, popular author
Arthur Lehman Goodhart, jurist^[2]
Jack Greenberg, lawyer for the Brown v. Board of Education case, worked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and assisted establishing the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) with Pete Tijerina^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]
Julius Hoffman, U.S. attorney and judge, achieved notoriety for his role in the Chicago Seven trial
Judith Kaye, first female Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Alex Kozinski, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit judge and popular essayist ^[7]
William Kunstler, U.S. lawyer famous for defending controversial "radical" clients such as the "Chicago Seven" protesters of the 1968 Democratic National Convention^[8]
Samuel Leibowitz, lawyer, defender of the Scottsboro Boys^[9]
Edward Levi, U.S. Attorney General, 1975–77
Nathan Lewin, prominent Jewish advocate; argued many first amendment, establishment clause-related cases before the Supreme Court^{[citation needed]}
Martin Lipton, U.S. leading business lawyer in corporate mergers
Julian Mack, early 20th-century United States Circuit Court of Appeals Judge^[10]^[11]
Stanley Mosk, U.S. jurist, California Supreme Court Justice and Attorney General
Peter Neufeld, Innocence Project
Richard Posner, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School; former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project; defense lawyer for O.J. Simpson^[12]
Eliot Spitzer, former governor and former Attorney General of New York
Horace Stern, first Jewish justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court; later elevated to Chief Justice. Founded the law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen
Laurence H. Tribe, Professor of Law, Harvard University
Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law, UCLA

Media figures

Ben Brafman, attorney for Sean Combs and Michael Jackson
Roy Cohn, chief attorney for Joseph McCarthy
Ed Fagan, reparations lawyer, disbarred in New York^[13] and New Jersey for stealing money from Holocaust survivors..^[14]
Bertram Fields (1929–), Harvard-trained lawyer, famous for his work in the field of entertainment law^[1]
Ed Koch, judge on The People's Court; former mayor of New York
Scooter Libby, former Vice Presidential Chief of Staff
Robert Shapiro, U.S. lawyer, known for the trial of O.J. Simpson
Jerry Sheindlin, television judge, husband of Judith Sheindlin, former New York State Supreme Court justice
Judith Sheindlin, former New York family court judge, host of Judge Judy
Joseph Wapner, judge on The People's Court

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b Waxman, Sharon; Richard Siklos (2006-12-19). "New Dispute Over Firing of Publisher". The New York Times. Retrieved 2006-12-18.
^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in New York of wealthy Jewish parents"
^ https://books.google.com/books?id=o8Kw3KMWMV8C&pg=PA198&lpg=PA198&dq=Reies+Tijerina+Jack+Greenberg&source=bl&ots=YxcoAdMkqn&sig=L0-cqMzRLZEiFY9jvIfuqWeLlNM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wyImVcSvIMargwT_y4CQDw&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Reies%20Tijerina%20Jack%20Greenberg&f=false
^ http://www.lib.utexas.edu/voces/template-stories-indiv.html?work_urn=urn%3Autlol%3Awwlatin.459&work_title=Greenberg%2C+Jack
^ http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth250861/
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^ Noeleen G. Walder. Lawyer Disbarred for Failing to Pay Sanctions, Fees in Holocaust Case. New York Law Journal. December 12, 2008. http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202426698941
^ Koloff, Abbott. NJ: Disbar ex-Parsippany lawyer for stealing from Holocaust survivors. Daily Record. January 22, 2009.

[Allred1-1] Waxman, Sharon; Richard Siklos (2006-12-19). "New Dispute Over Firing of Publisher". The New York Times. Retrieved 2006-12-18.

[2] Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in New York of wealthy Jewish parents"

[3] ttps://books.google.com/books?id=o8Kw3KMWMV8C&pg=PA198&lpg=PA198&dq=Reies+Tijerina+Jack+Greenberg&source=bl&ots=YxcoAdMkqn&sig=L0-cqMzRLZEiFY9jvIfuqWeLlNM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wyImVcSvIMargwT_y4CQDw&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Reies%20Tijerina%20Jack%20Greenberg&f=false

[4] ttp://www.lib.utexas.edu/voces/template-stories-indiv.html?work_urn=urn%3Autlol%3Awwlatin.459&work_title=Greenberg%2C+Jack

[5] ttp://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth250861/

[6] ttp://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth250859/m1/1/

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[disbarment-13] Noeleen G. Walder. Lawyer Disbarred for Failing to Pay Sanctions, Fees in Holocaust Case. New York Law Journal. December 12, 2008. http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202426698941

[stealing-14] Koloff, Abbott. NJ: Disbar ex-Parsippany lawyer for stealing from Holocaust survivors. Daily Record. January 22, 2009.

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