List of Jewish American jurists
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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
- Felix S. Cohen, professor of legal philosophy, public servant and lawyer
- Robert Cover, law professor, scholar, and activist
- Ronald Dworkin, philosopher, jurist, and scholar of United States constitutional law
Media figures
- Leslie Abramson, known for her role in the legal defense of Lyle and Erik Menendez[13]
- Alan Berg, attorney and talk radio show host; was murdered in 1984
- Ben Brafman, attorney for Sean Combs, Harvey Weinstein and late Michael Jackson
- Roy Cohn, chief attorney for Joseph McCarthy
- Ed Fagan, reparations lawyer, disbarred in New York[14] and New Jersey for stealing money from Holocaust survivors[15]
- Bertram Fields, 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
- Howard K. Stern, domestic partner and attorney of the late model Anna Nicole Smith, co-star of reality show The Anna Nicole Show
- 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/
- ^ http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth250859/m1/1/
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- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-08-27. Retrieved 2006-06-10.
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- ^ Judy Rose (1997-04-08). "Abramson's Career A Long Fight For The Underdog". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
She was born during World War II into a family of highly political Jewish immigrants.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ 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.