List of judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Following is a complete list of current and former United States federal judge
United States federal judge
In the United States, the title of federal judge usually means a judge appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate in accordance with Article II of the United States Constitution....

s of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York is a federal district court. Appeals from the Southern District of New York are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (in case...

. Since its creation, the Southern District of New York has had 134 judges, more than any other District. Twelve judges from the Southern District of New York have been elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit‎ - Augustus Noble Hand

Augustus Noble Hand

Augustus Noble Hand was an American judge who served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and later on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. His most notable rulings restricted the reach of obscenity statutes in the areas of literature and...

, Barrington Daniels Parker, Jr.

Barrington Daniels Parker, Jr.

Barrington Daniels Parker, Jr. is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.- Background :...

, Charles Merrill Hough

Charles Merrill Hough

Charles Merrill Hough was a longtime federal judge in New York City.Hough attended Dartmouth College and then "read law" before being admitted to the New York bar in 1883...

, Irving Kaufman

Irving Kaufman

Irving Robert Kaufman was a federal judge in the United States. He is best remembered for imposing the controversial death sentences on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.-Biography:...

, John M. Walker, Jr.

John M. Walker, Jr.

John Mercer Walker, Jr. is a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a cousin of U.S. Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush...

, Julius Marshuetz Mayer

Julius Marshuetz Mayer

Julius Marshuetz Mayer was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He attended the College of the City of New York and Columbia Law School before beginning a career in private practice in New York. During his years as a lawyer, Mayer also served as counsel to various state agencies...

, Learned Hand

Learned Hand

Billings Learned Hand was a United States judge and judicial philosopher. He served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and later the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit...

, Pierre N. Leval

Pierre N. Leval

Pierre Nelson Leval is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. At the time of his appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1993, he was a United States District Court Judge in the Southern District of New York....

, Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. Sotomayor is the Court's 111th justice, its first Hispanic justice, and its third female justice....

, Wilfred Feinberg

Wilfred Feinberg

Wilfred Feinberg is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was Chief Judge of the Circuit from 1980 to 1988, and assumed senior status in 1991...

, Gerard E. Lynch

Gerard E. Lynch

Gerard Edmund Lynch is a United States federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was confirmed to that seat on September 17, 2009 after previously having been appointed in 2000 by President Bill Clinton to serve on the United States District Court for the...

, and Denny Chin

Denny Chin

Denny Chin is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was a judge on the United States district court for the Southern District of New York before joining the federal appeals bench. President Clinton nominated Chin to the district court on March 24, 1994, and...

. One judge, Samuel Blatchford

Samuel Blatchford

Samuel Blatchford was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from April 3, 1882 until his death.-Early life:...

, was elevated directly from the Southern District of New York to the Supreme Court of the United States

Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...

. The longest serving judge, David Norton Edelstein

David Norton Edelstein

David Norton Edelstein was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, Edelstein received a B.S. and an M.A. from Fordham University, and an LL.B. from Fordham University School of Law. He entered private practice in New York City. He was an attorney in the Claims Division of the...

, served as an active judge for 43 years to the day, and in senior status

Senior status

Senior status is a form of semi-retirement for United States federal judges, and judges in some state court systems. After federal judges have reached a certain combination of age and years of service on the federal courts, they are allowed to assume senior status...

for an additional six years.

Judge	Appointed by	Began active service	Ended active service	Ended senior status	End reason
George Bethune Adams George Bethune Adams George Bethune Adams was a United States lawyer and federal judge specializing in admiralty law. He served in private practice, litigated before the Supreme Court of the United States, and served as a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.-Early life and...	William McKinley William McKinley William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...			–	death
Harold Baer, Jr. Harold Baer, Jr. Harold Baer, Jr. is a Federal District Judge in the Southern District of New York. He received his BA from Hobart College in 1954, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his LLB from Yale Law School in 1957....	Bill Clinton Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

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| Deborah Batts

Deborah Batts

Deborah A. Batts is a United States federal judge, currently serving on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. In June 1994, Deborah Batts was sworn in as a Federal District Judge for Manhattan, becoming the nation's first openly LGBT, African-American federal judge...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

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| Arnold Bauman

Arnold Bauman

Arnold Bauman was a District Court Judge.Born in New York, New York, Arnold Bauman received a B.A. from St. John's University in 1933, and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1937...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

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| Richard M. Berman

Richard M. Berman

Richard M. Berman is a senior Federal District Judge in the Southern District of New York. He received his BS from Cornell University in 1964 and his JD from NYU School of Law in 1967. He also received an MSW from Fordham University in 1996...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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| Samuel Rossiter Betts

Samuel Rossiter Betts

Samuel Rossiter Betts was a U.S. Representative from New York and a long-serving United States federal judge.-Life:...

||John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States . He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of former...

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| Alexander Bicks

Alexander Bicks

Alexander Bicks was a United States federal judge.Bicks received an LL.B. from New York University School of Law in 1922, and was in private practice in New York City from 1924 to 1954....

||Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| Samuel Blatchford

Samuel Blatchford

Samuel Blatchford was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from April 3, 1882 until his death.-Early life:...

||Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American...

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| William Bondy

William Bondy

William Bondy was a longtime federal judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York....

||Warren G. Harding

Warren G. Harding

Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States . A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate , as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S. Senator...

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| Dudley Baldwin Bonsal

Dudley Baldwin Bonsal

Dudley Baldwin Bonsal was a United States federal judge.Born in Bedford, New York, Bonsal received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1927 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1930. He was in private practice in New York City from 1930 to 1942. He was a Chief counsel, U.S. Office of...

||John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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| Vincent L. Briccetti

Vincent L. Briccetti

Vincent Louis Briccetti is a United States district judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. On April 12, 2011, the Senate confirmed his nomination by unanimous consent during executive proceedings...

||Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

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| Charles L. Brieant

Charles L. Brieant

Charles LaMonte Brieant, Jr. was a United States federal judge.-Early life, education, and career:Born 1923 in Ossining, New York, Brieant was in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, from 1943 to 1946, and then received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1947, and an LL.B. from...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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| John Bright

John Bright (judge)

John Bright was a United States federal judge.Born in Middletown, New York, Bright read law to enter the bar in 1906...

||Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

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| Vincent Lyons Broderick

Vincent Lyons Broderick

Vincent Lyons Broderick was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York....

||Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...

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| Addison Brown

Addison Brown

Addison Brown was a United States federal judge.Brown was born in West Newbury, Massachusetts, and was educated at Amherst College. He received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1852, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1854...

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| Frederick van Pelt Bryan

Frederick van Pelt Bryan

Frederick van Pelt Bryan was a United States federal judge.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Bryan received an A.B. from Columbia University in 1925 and an LL.B. from Columbia University Law School in 1928. He was in private practice in New York City from 1928 to 1933...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| Naomi Reice Buchwald

Naomi Reice Buchwald

Naomi Reice Buchwald is a United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.- Background :...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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| Francis Gordon Caffey

Francis Gordon Caffey

Francis Gordon Caffey was a United States federal judge.Born in Gordonsville, Alabama, Caffey received an M.A. from Howard College, Alabama in 1887, an A.B. from Harvard University in 1891, and another M.A. from Harvard University in 1892...

||Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

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| John Matthew Cannella

John Matthew Cannella

John Matthew Cannella was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, Cannella received a B.S. from Fordham College in 1930 and an LL.B. from Fordham University School of Law in 1933. He was in private practice in New York City from 1935 to 1940. He was an assistant U.S...

||John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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| Robert L. Carter

Robert L. Carter

Robert Lee Carter is a U.S. civil rights activist and judge.-Personal history and early life:Robert Lee Carter was born on March 11, 1917, in Careyville, Florida. While still very young, his mother moved north to Newark, New Jersey, where he was raised...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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| Richard C. Casey

Richard C. Casey

Richard Conway Casey was a United States federal judge for the Southern District of New York. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton on July 16, 1997 to a seat vacated by Charles S. Haight, Jr., confirmed by the Senate on October 21, and commissioned on October 24 of the same year...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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| John M. Cashin

John M. Cashin

John M. Cashin was a United States federal judge.Born in Kingston, New York, Cashin received an LL.B. from Cornell Law School in 1915. He was in private practice in Kingston, New York from 1916 to 1922. He was a City treasurer of Kingston, New York in 1922. He was an assistant U.S...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| P. Kevin Castel

P. Kevin Castel

P. Kevin Castel is a United States federal judge.Born in Jamaica, New York, Castel received a B.S. from St. John's University in 1972 and a J.D. from St. John's University School of Law in 1975. He was a law clerk to Kevin Thomas Duffy of the United States District Court for the Southern District...

||George W. Bush

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

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| Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum

Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum

Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum is a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York...

||Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

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| Denny Chin

Denny Chin

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Bill Clinton

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| William Gardner Choate

William Gardner Choate

William Gardner Choate was a United States federal judge.Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Choate received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1852 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1854...

||Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States . As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution...

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| John William Clancy

John William Clancy

John William Clancy was a United States federal judge.Born in New York City, Clancy received a B.A. from Fordham College in 1909 and an LL.B. from Fordham University School of Law in 1912. He was in private practice in New York City from 1912 to 1936.On June 15, 1936, Clancy was nominated by...

||Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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| Frank Joseph Coleman

Frank Joseph Coleman

Frank Joseph Coleman was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, Coleman received an A.B. from City College of New York in 1906 and an LL.B. from New York Law School in 1909. U.S. Army Private, World War I. He was a Secretary to Justices McLaughlin and Finch, Supreme Court of New...

||Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...

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| Kenneth Conboy

Kenneth Conboy

Kenneth Conboy was a federal judge of the United States District Court in New York from 1987–1993 when he resigned to work in private practice.-Early life:...

||Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

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| Edward Conger

Edward Conger

Edward Augustus Conger was a prominent federal judge in New York City.-Biography:Conger attended the New York University School of Law and read law before being admitted to the New York bar. He practiced law in Poughkeepsie, New York until 1908, when he was appointed as Assistant District...

||Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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| William C. Conner

William C. Conner

William Curtis Conner was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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| Irving Ben Cooper

Irving Ben Cooper

Irving Ben Cooper was a U. S. District Court Judge of the Federal District Court of the Southern District of New York from 1962 to 1996, having received a recess appointment from John F. Kennedy on October 5, 1961...

||John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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| Denise Cote

Denise Cote

Denise Cote is a United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.-Personal and Education:...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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| Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr.

Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr.

Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr. was a United States federal judge.Born in Utica, New York, Coxe attended Cornell Law School, and received an A.B. from Yale University in 1901...

||Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

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| Thomas Francis Croake

Thomas Francis Croake

Thomas Francis Croake was a United States federal judge.Born in Saranac Lake, New York, Croake received an LL.B. from Albany Law School in 1925. He was an acting city judge, City of Plattsburgh, New York from 1926 to 1927. He was corporate counsel for the City of Plattsburgh, New York from 1928 to...

||John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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| Paul A. Crotty

Paul A. Crotty

Paul Austin Crotty is a United States federal judge.Born in Buffalo, New York, Crotty received a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1962 and an LL.B. from Cornell Law School in 1967. He was a United States Navy Reserve from 1962 to 1968. He was a law clerk, Hon. Lloyd F. MacMahon, U.S....

||George W. Bush

George W. Bush

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| George B. Daniels

George B. Daniels

George B. Daniels is a United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.Daniels was born in Allendale, South Carolina. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1975. He received a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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| Richard J. Daronco

Richard J. Daronco

Richard Joseph Daronco was a federal judge in the United States.Daronco was born in New York City. He graduated from Providence College and Albany Law School, and practiced law in White Plains, New York from 1959 to 1971...

||Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

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| Archie Owen Dawson

Archie Owen Dawson

Archie Owen Dawson was a United States federal judge.Born in Pomfret, Connecticut, Dawson received an A.B. from Columbia University in 1921 and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1923. He was in private practice in New York City from 1923 to 1954, interrupted by service as a private in the...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| Edward Jordan Dimock

Edward Jordan Dimock

Edward Jordan Dimock was a United States federal judge.Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Dimock received an A.B. from Yale College in 1911 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1914. He was in private practice in New York City from 1914 to 1941. He was a Lecturer, Yale Law School from 1941 to 1946...

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

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| Kevin Duffy

Kevin Duffy

Kevin Thomas Duffy is an American lawyer and currently a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.-Early life, education, and career:...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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| David Norton Edelstein

David Norton Edelstein

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

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| Wilfred Feinberg

Wilfred Feinberg

Wilfred Feinberg is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was Chief Judge of the Circuit from 1980 to 1988, and assumed senior status in 1991...

||John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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| Marvin E. Frankel

Marvin E. Frankel

Marvin E. Frankel was a litigator, a United States federal judge on the Southern District of New York, a professor at Columbia Law School, and a legal scholar whose views helped to establish sentencing guidelines for the federal courts.-Biography:Born in New York, New York, Frankel was in the...

||Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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| Louis Freeh

Louis Freeh

Louis Joseph Freeh was the 5th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serving from September 1993 to June 2001....

||George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...

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| Lee Parsons Gagliardi

Lee Parsons Gagliardi

Lee Parsons Gagliardi was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Gagliardi received an A.B. from Williams College in 1941 and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1947. He was nominated to the court by Richard M...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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| Paul G. Gardephe

Paul G. Gardephe

Paul G. Gardephe is a United States federal judge.-Biography:Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Gardephe received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979, an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1982. He was a law clerk, Hon. Albert J....

||George W. Bush

George W. Bush

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| Henry W. Goddard

Henry W. Goddard

Henry Warren Goddard was a longtime federal judge in New York City.Born in New York, Goddard graduated from New York Law School in 1901. From 1901 to 1923, he worked as a lawyer in private practise in Manhattan and became active in Republican politics. In 1923, President Warren G...

||Warren G. Harding

Warren G. Harding

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| Gerard Louis Goettel

Gerard Louis Goettel

Gerard Louis Goettel is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Goettel received a B.A. from Duke University in 1950 and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1955. He acted as a U.S. Magistrate for the court from 1971 to 1976...

||Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...

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| Thomas P. Griesa

Thomas P. Griesa

Thomas Poole Griesa is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.Judge Griesa received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1952 and an LL.B. from Stanford Law School in 1958....

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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| Murray Gurfein

Murray Gurfein

Murray Irwin Gurfein was a federal judge in the United States.Born in New York City, Gurfein attended Columbia College and Harvard Law School. After graduating, he served as a law clerk to Judge Julian Mack and then as an Assistant United States Attorney in New York. He also served as an...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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| Charles S. Haight, Jr.

Charles S. Haight, Jr.

Charles Sherman Haight, Jr. is an American lawyer and federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.-Biography:...

||Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...

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| Augustus Noble Hand

Augustus Noble Hand

||Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

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| Learned Hand

Learned Hand

||William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...

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| Alvin Hellerstein

Alvin Hellerstein

Alvin K. Hellerstein is a senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and has been involved in several high-profile cases....

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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| William Bernard Herlands

William Bernard Herlands

William Bernard Herlands was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, Herlands received a B.S. from College of the City of New York in 1925 and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1928. He was in private practice in New York City from 1928 to 1931. He was an assistant U.S...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| George Chandler Holt

George Chandler Holt

George Chandler Holt was a United States federal judge.Born in Mexico, New York, Holt received an A.B. from Yale College in 1866, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1869. He was in private practice in New York City from 1869 to 1898. He was a Referee...

||Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

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| Richard J. Holwell

Richard J. Holwell

Richard James Holwell is a United States federal judge for the Southern District of New York.Born in New York, New York, Holwell received a B.A. from Villanova University in 1967 and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1970. He graduated from Cambridge University School of Criminology...

||George W. Bush

George W. Bush

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| Charles Merrill Hough

Charles Merrill Hough

Charles Merrill Hough was a longtime federal judge in New York City.Hough attended Dartmouth College and then "read law" before being admitted to the New York bar in 1883...

||Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

||||||–||reappointment
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| G. Murray Hulbert

G. Murray Hulbert

George Murray Hulbert , sometimes called Murray Hulbert was a United States Representative from New York.-Biography:...

||Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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| Barbara S. Jones

Barbara S. Jones

Barbara Sue Jones is a United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.-Early life and education:Born in Inglewood, California, Jones received a Bachelor of Arts from Mount St...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

||||Incumbent||–||–
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| Lewis A. Kaplan

Lewis A. Kaplan

Lewis A. Kaplan is a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. He took senior status on February 1, 2011....

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

||||||Incumbent||–
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| Kenneth M. Karas

Kenneth M. Karas

Kenneth Michael Karas is a United States federal judge.Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Karas received a B.A. from Georgetown University in 1986 and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1991. He was a law clerk for the Hon. Reena Raggi, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District...

||George W. Bush

George W. Bush

||||Incumbent||–||–
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| Irving Kaufman

Irving Kaufman

Irving Robert Kaufman was a federal judge in the United States. He is best remembered for imposing the controversial death sentences on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.-Biography:...

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

||||||–||reappointment
|-
| Samuel H. Kaufman

Samuel H. Kaufman

Samuel Hamilton Kaufman was a federal judge in New York City.Kaufman graduated from the New York University School of Law and practiced privately as a lawyer in New York from 1918 to 1948...

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

||||||||death
|-
| John F. Keenan

John F. Keenan

John Fontaine Keenan is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Keenan received a B.B.A. from Manhattan College in 1951 and an LL.B from Fordham University School of Law, in 1954. He was nominated to the court by Ronald Reagan on September...

||Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

||||||Incumbent||–
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| Whitman Knapp

Whitman Knapp

Percy Whitman Knapp was a federal judge who led a far-reaching investigation into corruption in the New York City Police Department from 1970 to 1972.-Childhood and education:...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

||||||||death
|-
| John C. Knox

John C. Knox

John Clark Knox was a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.-Biography:...

||Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

||||||||death
|-
| John G. Koeltl

John G. Koeltl

John George Koeltl is a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan.-Education:Koeltl graduated from Regis High School in New York City in 1963...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

||||Incumbent||–||–
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| Shirley Wohl Kram

Shirley Wohl Kram

Shirley Wohl Kram was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, Kram received an LL.B. from Brooklyn Law School in 1950. She was an attorney with the Legal Aid Society of New York City from 1951 to 1953, and was in private practice of law in New York City from 1954 to 1960...

||Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

||||||||death
|-
| Morris E. Lasker

Morris E. Lasker

Morris E. Lasker was a United States federal judge.Born in Hartsdale, New York, Lasker received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1938 and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1941. He was a staff attorney of U.S. Senate Committee Investigating National Defense Programs from 1941 to 1942...

||Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

||||||||death
|-
| Vincent L. Leibell

Vincent L. Leibell (judge)

Vincent L. Leibell was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, Leibell received an M.A. from St. Francis Xavier College in 1905 and an LL.B. from Fordham University School of Law in 1908. He was in private practice in New York City from 1909 to 1936.On June 8, 1936, Leibell was...

||Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

||||||||death
|-
| Peter K. Leisure

Peter K. Leisure

Peter Keeton Leisure is a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, Leisure received a B.A. from Yale University in 1952 and attended Columbia Law School, but was in the United States Army Lieutenant, Artillery from 1953 to 1955. He received an LL.B. from the University of Virginia...

||Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

||||||Incumbent||–
|-
| Pierre N. Leval

Pierre N. Leval

||Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

||||||–||reappointment
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| Richard Harrington Levet

Richard Harrington Levet

Richard Harrington Levet was a United States federal judge.Born in Geneva, New York, Levet received an A.B. from Colgate University in 1916, an A.M. from Colgate University in 1917, and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1925. He was in the United States Army Private from 1918 to 1919...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

||||||||resignation
|-
| Mary Johnson Lowe

Mary Johnson Lowe

Mary Johnson Lowe was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York....

||Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

||||||||death
|-
| Gerard E. Lynch

Gerard E. Lynch

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

||||||–||reappointment
|-
| Lloyd Francis MacMahon

Lloyd Francis MacMahon

Lloyd Francis MacMahon was a United States federal judge.Born in Elmira, New York, MacMahon received an A.B. from Cornell University in 1936 and an LL.B. from Cornell Law School in 1938. He was a U.S. Naval Reserve Lieutenant from 1944 to 1945. He was in private practice in New York City from 1942...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

||||||||death
|-
| Samuel Mandelbaum

Samuel Mandelbaum

Samuel Mandelbaum was a New York lawyer and politician who served for ten years as a federal district judge....

||Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

||||||–||death
|-
| Walter R. Mansfield

Walter R. Mansfield

Walter Roe Mansfield was a federal judge in the United States.Judge Mansfield was the son of Boston Mayor Frederick W...

||Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

||||||–||reappointment
|-
| Martin Manton

Martin Manton

Martin Thomas Manton was a prominent United States federal Judge in New York City, sometimes remembered for having resigned and served time in prison for accepting bribes while in office. In 1916 he was the youngest federal judge in the United States.-Biography:He was born on August 2, 1880...

||Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

||||||–||reappointment
|-
| Victor Marrero

Victor Marrero

Victor Marrero is a United States federal judge appointed to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by President Bill Clinton in 1999...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

||||||Incumbent||–
|-
| John S. Martin Jr.

John S. Martin Jr.

John S. Martin Jr. is a former United States federal judge.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Martin received a B.A. from Manhattan College in 1957 and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1961. He was a law clerk, Hon. Leonard P. Moore, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit from 1961 to 1962. He was an...

||George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

||||||||retirement
|-
| Julius Marshuetz Mayer

Julius Marshuetz Mayer

||William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...

||||||–||reappointment
|-
| John F. X. McGohey

John F. X. McGohey

John F. X. McGohey was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, McGohey received a B.A. from Fordham University in 1917 and was in the United States Army during World War I, from 1918 to 1919. He received an LL.B. from New York University School of Law in 1923...

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

||||||||death
|-
| Lawrence M. McKenna

Lawrence M. McKenna

Lawrence M. McKenna is a Senior District Judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He was nominated to the bench by George H. W. Bush on January 24, 1990. Judge McKenna received his commission on April 30 of the same year, taking the seat of William C. Conner...

||George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

||||||Incumbent||–
|-
| Edward Cochrane McLean

Edward Cochrane McLean

Edward Cochrane McLean was a United States federal judge.Born in Hoosick Falls, New York, McLean received an A.B. from Williams College in 1924 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1929. He was a deputy assistant district attorney of New York County, New York from 1935 to 1936. He was in...

||John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

||||||–||death
|-
| Colleen McMahon

Colleen McMahon

Colleen McMahon is a United States federal judge.Born in Columbus, Ohio, McMahon received a B.A. from Ohio State University in 1973 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1976. She was in private practice in New York from 1976–1979 and from 1980 to 1995. She was a Speechwriter / special assistant...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

||||Incumbent||–||–
|-
| Harold Medina

Harold Medina

Harold Raymond Medina, Sr. was an American lawyer, teacher and judge who is most noted for hearing landmark cases of conspiracy and treason.Medina died in 1990 at the age of 102.- Early life :...

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

||||||–||reappointment
|-
| Charles Miller Metzner

Charles Miller Metzner

Charles Miller Metzner was a United States federal judge.Born in New York City, Metzner received an A.B. from Columbia University in 1931 and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1933. He was in private practice in New York City from 1933 to 1934. He was a Research assistant, Judicial Council of...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

||||||||death
|-
| Constance Baker Motley

Constance Baker Motley

Constance Baker Motley was an African American civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, state senator, and President of Manhattan, New York City.-Early Life and Academics:...

||Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

||||||||death
|-
| Michael Mukasey||Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

||||||||retirement
|-
| Thomas Francis Murphy

Thomas Francis Murphy

Thomas Francis Murphy was a federal prosecutor and judge in New York City.-Biography:Murphy was born in New York. He attended Georgetown University and Fordham Law School, from which he graduated in 1930...

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

||||||||death
|-
| Gregory Francis Noonan

Gregory Francis Noonan

Gregory Francis Noonan was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, Noonan received an LL.B. from Fordham University School of Law in 1928. He was in private practice in New York City from 1928 to 1934. He was an assistant U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York, Civil...

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

||||||–||death
|-
| Richard Owen

Richard Owen (judge)

Richard Owen is a United States federal judge.Born to an opera-loving attorney, he grew up in New York, New York. Owen was in the United States Army Air Corps from 1942–45, and then received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1945. He received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1950, and entered...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

||||||Incumbent||–
|-
| Edmund Louis Palmieri

Edmund Louis Palmieri

Edmund Louis Palmieri was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, Palmieri received an A.B. from Columbia College in 1926 and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1929. He was a Law secretary of Hon. Charles Evans Hughes, Permanent Court of International Justice, The Hague in 1929...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

||||||||death
|-
| Barrington Daniels Parker, Jr.

Barrington Daniels Parker, Jr.

Barrington Daniels Parker, Jr. is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.- Background :...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

||||||–||reappointment
|-
| Robert P. Patterson

Robert P. Patterson

Robert Porter Patterson was the United States Under Secretary of War under President Franklin Roosevelt and the United States Secretary of War under President Harry S. Truman from September 27, 1945 to July 18, 1947....

||Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

||||||–||reappointment
|-
| Robert P. Patterson, Jr.

Robert P. Patterson, Jr.

Robert Porter Patterson Jr. is a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, Patterson was in the United States Army Air Corps from 1942–56, during which time he received a B.A. from Harvard College in 1947 and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1950...

||Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

||||||Incumbent||–
|-
| William H. Pauley III

William H. Pauley III

William H. Pauley III is a United States federal judge.Born in Glen Cove, New York, Pauley received an A.B. from Duke University in 1974 and a J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1977. He was a law clerk, Office of the Nassau County Attorney, New York from 1977 to 1978. He was a Deputy...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

||||Incumbent||–||–
|-
| Lawrence W. Pierce

Lawrence W. Pierce

Judge Lawrence Pierce is an American lawyer who served for 24 years as a federal judge.A native of Philadelphia, Pierce attended St. Joseph's University and Fordham Law School. As a lawyer, Pierce worked as a public defender in New York City and then served as an assistant district attorney in...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

||||||–||reappointment
|-
| Milton Pollack

Milton Pollack

Milton Pollack was a longtime federal judge in New York City.Pollack was born in New York and obtained his bachelors and law degrees from Columbia University and Columbia Law School....

||Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

||||||||death
|-
| Loretta A. Preska

Loretta A. Preska

Loretta A. Preska is the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and a former nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.-Background:...

||George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

||||Incumbent||–||–
|-
| Jed S. Rakoff

Jed S. Rakoff

Jed Saul Rakoff is a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.-Biography:Rakoff was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 1, 1943. Rakoff graduated with honors in English literature from Swarthmore College , earned his M. Phil. from Balliol College at Oxford University...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

||||||Incumbent||–
|-
| Simon Hirsch Rifkind||Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

||||||–||resignation
|-
| Stephen C. Robinson

Stephen C. Robinson

Stephen Craig Robinson was a United States federal judge who served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2003 to 2010.-Early life and education:...

||George W. Bush

George W. Bush

||||||–||resignation
|-
| Sylvester J. Ryan

Sylvester J. Ryan

Sylvester J. Ryan was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, Ryan attended the City College of New York and an LL.B. from Fordham University School of Law in 1917. He was in private practice in New York City from 1918 to 1924...

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

||||||||death
|-
| Leonard B. Sand

Leonard B. Sand

Leonard Burke Sand is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Sand received a B.S. from the New York University School of Commerce in 1947 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1951. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional...

||Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

||||||Incumbent||–
|-
| Shira Scheindlin

Shira Scheindlin

Shira A. Scheindlin is a United States District Court judge for the Southern District of New York. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on July 28, 1994, to a seat vacated by Louis J...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

||||||Incumbent||–
|-
| Allen G. Schwartz

Allen G. Schwartz

Allen G. Schwartz was a United States federal judge.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Schwartz received a B.B.A. from City College of New York, Baruch College in 1955 and an LL.B. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1958. He was in the United States Army from 1958 to 1959, remaining in the...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

||||||–||death
|-
| Cathy Seibel

Cathy Seibel

Cathy Seibel is a United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She joined the court in 2008 after being nominated by President George W...

||George W. Bush

George W. Bush

||||Incumbent||–||–
|-
| Abraham David Sofaer

Abraham David Sofaer

Abraham David Sofaer was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and then a legal adviser to the United States State Department. He is currently a George P...

||Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

||||||–||resignation
|-
| Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Sotomayor

||George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

||||||–||reappointment
|-
| John E. Sprizzo

John E. Sprizzo

John Emilio Sprizzo was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.-Early life:...

||Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

||||||||death
|-
| Louis L. Stanton

Louis L. Stanton

Louis Lee Stanton is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.Stanton received a B.A. from Yale University in 1950, a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1955, and an LL.B from University of Virginia School of Law in 1955...

||Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

||||||Incumbent||–
|-
| Sidney H. Stein

Sidney H. Stein

Sidney H. Stein is a United States federal judge. He assumed senior status on September 1, 2010.Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Stein was a New York Army National Guard from 1969 to 1975. He received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1967 and attended the New York University Graduate School of...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

||||||Incumbent||–
|-
| Charles E. Stewart, Jr.

Charles E. Stewart, Jr.

Charles E. Stewart, Jr. was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York....

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

||||||||death
|-
| Sidney Sugarman

Sidney Sugarman

Sidney Sugarman was a United States federal judge.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Sugarman received an LL.B. from Boston University School of Law in 1925. He was in private practice in New York City from 1927 to 1946. He was a Counsel, Bronx County Clerk's Office, New York from 1939 to 1946...

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

||||||||death
|-
| Richard Sullivan

Richard Sullivan

Richard Joseph Sullivan is a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Nominated by President George W. Bush on February 15, 2007 to fill the seat of the retired Judge Michael B. Mukasey, Sullivan was confirmed by the U.S...

||George W. Bush

George W. Bush

||||Incumbent||–||–
|-
| Laura Taylor Swain

Laura Taylor Swain

Laura Taylor Swain is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.- Early life and education :Born in Brooklyn, Swain earned a bachelor's degree in 1979 from Harvard University/Radcliffe College...

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

||||Incumbent||–||–
|-
| Robert W. Sweet

Robert W. Sweet

Robert Workman Sweet is an American jurist and currently a senior United States federal judge serving on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.-Early life and career:...

||Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

||||||Incumbent||–
|-
| Charles Henry Tenney

Charles Henry Tenney

Charles Henry Tenney was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, Tenney received an A.B. from Yale University in 1933 and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1936. He was in private practice in New York City from 1936 to 1942. He was a U.S. Naval Reserve Lieutenant Commander from...

||John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

||||||||death
|-
| Thomas D. Thacher

Thomas D. Thacher

Thomas Day Thacher was a lawyer and judge in New York City.Thacher was born in Tenafly, New Jersey and was the oldest of four children of Thomas Thacher, a prominent New York lawyer, and Sarah McCulloh Thacher...

||Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge

||||||–||resignation
|-
| Harold R. Tyler, Jr.

Harold R. Tyler, Jr.

Harold R. Tyler, Jr. was a United States federal judge.Born in Utica, New York, Tyler received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1943 and served as a Captain in the United States Army during World War II. He then received an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1949, entering private practice in...

||John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

||||||–||resignation
|-
| William Peter Van Ness

William Peter Van Ness

William Peter Van Ness was a United States federal judge.-Early Life and education:Born in Ghent, New York, Van Ness was the son of Judge Peter Van Ness . Peter Van Ness was a wealthy lawyer and farmer, and was the owner of the property on which William P. Van Ness constructed a mansion in 1797...

||James Madison

James Madison

James Madison, Jr. was an American statesman and political theorist. He was the fourth President of the United States and is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being the primary author of the United States Constitution and at first an opponent of, and then a key author of the United...

|| ||||–||death
|-
| John M. Walker, Jr.

John M. Walker, Jr.

John Mercer Walker, Jr. is a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a cousin of U.S. Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush...

||Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

||||||–||reappointment
|-
| Lawrence Edward Walsh||Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

||||||–||resignation
|-
| Robert Joseph Ward

Robert Joseph Ward

Robert Joseph Ward was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Ward received a B.S. from Harvard College in 1945 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1949...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

||||||||death
|-
| Edward Weinfeld

Edward Weinfeld

Edward Weinfeld was a longtime federal judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, from 1950 to 1988....

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

||||||–||death
|-
| Henry Frederick Werker

Henry Frederick Werker

Henry Frederick Werker was an American lawyer and a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York....

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

||||||–||death
|-
| Francis A. Winslow

Francis A. Winslow

Francis A. Winslow was a federal judge in New York City during the 1920s.After attending the City College of New York and Columbia Law School, Winslow practiced as a lawyer in Yonkers, New York. He served as Corporation counsel for the City of Yonkers and from 1907 to 1913 as the district attorney...

||Warren G. Harding

Warren G. Harding

||||||–||resignation
|-
| Kimba Wood

Kimba Wood

Kimba Maureen Wood is a United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.-Early life and education:...

||Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

||||||Incumbent||–
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| John M. Woolsey

John M. Woolsey

John Munro Woolsey was a United States federal judge in New York City.Born in Aiken, South Carolina, Woolsey attended Phillips Academy, and received an A.B. from Yale University in 1898. He was awarded an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1901, where he was a founder of the Columbia Law Review...

||Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

||||||||death
|-
| Inzer Bass Wyatt

Inzer Bass Wyatt

Inzer Bass Wyatt was a United States federal judge.Born in Huntsville, Alabama, Wyatt received an A.B. from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in 1927 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1930. He was in private practice in New York City from 1930 to 1941...

||John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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