List of Jewish American jurists

This is a list of notable Jewish American jurists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see Lists of American Jews.

Supreme Court of the United States

Justice			State[lower-alpha 1]	Position	Succeeded	Date confirmed (Vote)	Tenure	Tenure length[lower-alpha 2]	Nominated by
67		Louis Brandeis (1856–1941)	KY	Associate Justice	J. Lamar	June 1, 1916 (47–22)	June 5, 1916 – February 13, 1939 (Retired)	22 years, 253 days	Woodrow Wilson
75		Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870–1938)	NY	Associate Justice	Holmes	February 24, 1932 (Acclamation)	March 14, 1932 – July 9, 1938 (Died)	6 years, 117 days	Herbert Hoover
78		Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965)	MA	Associate Justice	Cardozo	January 17, 1939 (Acclamation)	January 30, 1939 – August 28, 1962 (Retired)	23 years, 210 days	Franklin D. Roosevelt
94		Arthur Goldberg (1908–1990)	IL	Associate Justice	Frankfurter	September 25, 1962 (Acclamation)	October 1, 1962 – July 25, 1965 (Resigned)	2 years, 300 days	John F. Kennedy
95		Abe Fortas (1910–1982)	TN	Associate Justice	Goldberg	August 11, 1965 (Acclamation)	October 4, 1965 – May 14, 1969 (Resigned)	3 years, 222 days	Lyndon B. Johnson
107		Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020)	NY	Associate Justice	B. White	August 3, 1993 (96–3)	August 10, 1993 – September 18, 2020 (Died)	27 years, 39 days	Bill Clinton
108		Stephen Breyer (born 1938)	MA	Associate Justice	Blackmun	July 29, 1994 (87–9)	August 3, 1994 – Incumbent	26 years, 188 days[lower-alpha 3]
112		Elena Kagan (born 1960)	MA	Associate Justice	Stevens	August 5, 2010 (63–37)	August 7, 2010 – Incumbent	10 years, 184 days[lower-alpha 3]	Barack Obama

Federal Judges

Appellate Judges

• David L. Bazelon, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit[2]
• Edward Roy Becker, Chief Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[3]
• Guido Calabresi, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[4]
• Wilfred Feinberg, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[5]
• Joel Flaum, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit[6]
• Jerome Frank, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[7]
• Abraham Lincoln Freedman, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[8]
• Michelle Taryn Friedland, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[9]
• Merrick Garland, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit[10]
• Leonard I. Garth, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit [11]
• Douglas H. Ginsburg, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit[12]
• Ronald M. Gould, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[13]
• Susan P. Graber, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[14]
• Murray Gurfein, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[15]
• Andrew D. Hurwitz, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[16]
• Harry Ellis Kalodner, Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[17]
• Robert Katzmann, Chief United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[18]
• Irving Kaufman, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[19]
• Andrew Kleinfeld, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[20]
• Alex Kozinski, Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and popular essayist [21]
• Edward Leavy, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[22]
• Harold Leventhal, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit[23]
• Robert J. Luck, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit[24]
• Julian Mack, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[25][26]
• Julius Marshuetz Mayer, United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[27]
• Steven Menashi, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[28][29]
• Roger Miner, Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[30]
• Jon O. Newman, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[31]
• Rosemary S. Pooler, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Richard Posner, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit[32]
• Harry Pregerson, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[33]
• Sharon Prost, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit[34]
• Robin S. Rosenbaum, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit[35]
• Alvin Benjamin Rubin, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit[36]
• Laurence Silberman, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit[37]
• Barry G. Silverman, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[38]
• Simon Sobeloff, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit[39]
• Norman H. Stahl, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit[40]
• David Stras, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit[41]

District Judges

• Harold A. Ackerman, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey[42]
• Lynn S. Adelman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin[42]
• Roy Altman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida[43]
• Sidney M. Aronovitz, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida[42]
• Marvin E. Aspen, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois[42]
• Nancy Friedman Atlas, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas[42]
• Harold Baer Jr., Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Peter Hill Beer, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana[42]
• Richard M. Berman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Alexander Bicks, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Norman William Black, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Alan Neil Bloch, Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania[42]
• Beth Bloom, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida[44]
• Mosher Joseph Blumenfeld, District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut[42]
• Frederic Block, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York[42]
• Naomi Reice Buchwald, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Charles Breyer, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California[42]
• Stanley Brotman, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas[42]
• Allison Dale Burroughs, District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts[42]
• Robert N. Chatigny, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut[42]
• Deborah K. Chasanow, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland[42]
• Florence-Marie Cooper, Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
• Avern Cohn, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan[42]
• James I. Cohn, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida[45]
• Irving Ben Cooper, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Susan J. Dlott, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio[46]
• Jan E. DuBois, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[47]
• David Norton Edelstein, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Paul A. Engelmayer, District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[48]
• Martin Leach-Cross Feldman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana[49]
• Sandra J. Feuerstein, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York[42]
• Sherman Glenn Finesilver, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado[42]
• Herbert Allan Fogel, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[42]
• Jeremy Fogel, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California[42]
• Marvin E. Frankel, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Emerich B. Freed, District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio[42]
• Frank Harlan Freedman, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts[42]
• Beth Labson Freeman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California[50]
• Jerome B. Friedman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia[42]
• Paul L. Friedman, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia[51]
• Jesse M. Furman, District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[52][53]
• Nina Gershon, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York[42]
• Nancy Gertner, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts[54]
• Robert Gettleman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois[42]
• Mitchell S. Goldberg, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[42]
• Alan Stephen Gold, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida[42]
• Mark A. Goldsmith, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan[55]
• Louis Earl Goodman, District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California[42]
• Harold H. Greene, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia[42]
• Steven D. Grimberg, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia[56]
• Lawrence Gubow, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan[42]
• Alvin Hellerstein, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[57][58][59][60]
• William Bernard Herlands, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Irving Hill, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California[42]
• Faith S. Hochberg, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey[42]
• Julius Hoffman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois[42]
• Alexander Holtzoff, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia[42]
• Lewis A. Kaplan, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Lawrence K. Karlton, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California[42]
• David A. Katz, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio[42]
• Bruce William Kauffman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[42]
• Frank Albert Kaufman, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland[42]
• Samuel H. Kaufman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Gladys Kessler, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia[42]
• Edward R. Korman, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York[42]
• Robert S. Lasnik, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington[42]
• Morris E. Lasker, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Joan A. Lenard, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida[42]
• David F. Levi, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California[42]
• Gerald Sanford Levin, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California[42]
• Theodore Levin, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan[61]
• Jon D. Levy, Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine[42]
• Lewis J. Liman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[62]
• Sheryl H. Lipman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee[63]
• Barbara M. Lynn, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas[42]
• Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois[64]
• Samuel Mandelbaum, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Howard Matz, Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California[42]
• Peter Jo Messitte, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland[42]
• Charles Miller Metzner, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Jacob Mishler, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York[42]
• Grover M. Moscowitz, District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York[42]
• Barry Ted Moskowitz, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California[42]
• Mendon Morrill, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey[42]
• Stewart Albert Newblatt, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan[42]
• Casper Platt, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois[42]
• Dan A. Polster, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio[42]
• Milton Pollack, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Edmund Port, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York[42]
• Dean Pregerson, Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California[42]
• Jed S. Rakoff, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Simon H. Rifkind, District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Louis Rosenberg, Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania[42]
• Robin L. Rosenberg, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida[65]
• Lee Hyman Rosenthal, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas[66]
• George Rosling, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York[42]
• Allyne R. Ross, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York[42]
• Carl Bernard Rubin, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio[42]
• Lee Rudofsky, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas[67]
• Leo F. Rayfiel, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York[68]
• Patti B. Saris, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts[42]
• Shira Scheindlin, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[69]
• Charles Schwartz Jr., Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana[42]
• Harvey E. Schlesinger, Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida[42]
• Morey Leonard Sear, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana[42]
• Allen G. Schwartz, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Edward Joseph Schwartz, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California[42]
• Murray Merle Schwartz, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware[42]
• Berle M. Schiller, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[42]
• Norma Levy Shapiro, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[70]
• George Z. Singal, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine[42]
• Christina A. Snyder, Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California[42]
• Gus J. Solomon, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon [71]
• Arthur Spatt, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York[42]
• Sidney H. Stein, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Herbert Jay Stern, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey[42]
• Sidney Sugarman, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Hubert Irving Teitelbaum, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania[42]
• Amy Totenberg, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia[42]
• David G. Trager, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York[42]
• Robert Joseph Ward, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Jacob Weinberger, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California[42]
• Charles R. Weiner, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[42]
• Edward Weinfeld, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[42]
• Jack B. Weinstein, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York[42]
• Albert Charles Wollenberg, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California[42]
• Joshua Wolson, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania[72]
• Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr., Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts[42]

Solicitor Generals

• Charles Fried, Solicitor General of the United States (1985-1989)
• Daniel Mortimer Friedman, Acting Solicitor General of the United States (1977)
• Elena Kagan, Solicitor General of the United States (2009-2010)[73]
• Philip Perlman, Solicitor General of the United States (1947-1952)
• Simon Sobeloff, Solicitor General of the United States (1954-1956)
• Barbara Underwood, Acting Solicitor General of the United States (2001)[74]
• Seth P. Waxman, Solicitor General of the United States (1997-2001)[75]

U.S. Attorney Generals

• Edward H. Levi, United States Attorney General (1975-1977)[76]
• Michael Mukasey, United States Attorney General (2007-2009)[77]
• Jeffrey A. Rosen, acting United States Attorney General (2020-2021)[78]

Confederate Attorney Generals

• Judah P. Benjamin, Confederate States Attorney General (1861)[79]

U.S. Attorneys

• Adam L. Braverman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of California[80]
• Steve Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio[81]
• Paul J. Fishman, United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey [82]
• Joel Klein, Chancellor of New York City Schools (2002-2011), United States Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division (1996-2000), Law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.[83]

State Attorneys General

	State	Attorney General	Name	Party	Assumed office	Term expires
	New York		Simon W. Rosendale[84]	Democratic	January 1, 1892	December 31, 1893
	Maryland		Isidor Rayner[85]	Democratic	1899	1903
	Maryland		Isaac Lobe Straus[42]	Democratic	1907	1911
	New York		Carl Sherman[86]	Democratic	January 1, 1923	December 31, 1924
	New York		Albert Ottinger[87]	Republican	January 1, 1925	December 31, 1928
	Ohio		Gilbert Bettman[42]	Republican	January 14, 1929	January 12, 1933
	New Jersey		David T. Wilentz[88]	Democratic	1934	1944
	New York		Nathaniel L. Goldstein[42]	Republican	January 1, 1943	December 31, 1954
	Delaware		H. Albert Young[89]	Independent	1951	1955
	Massachusetts		George Fingold[90]	Republican	January 8, 1953	August 31, 1958
	New York		Jacob Javits[42]	Republican	January 1, 1955	January 9, 1957
	New York		Louis J. Lefkowitz[42]	Republican	January 10, 1957	December 31, 1978
	California		Stanley Mosk[42]	Democratic	January 5, 1959	1964
	New Hampshire		Warren Rudman[42]	Republican	1970	1976
	Rhode Island		Richard J. Israel[42]	Republican	January 5, 1971	January 7, 1975
	Florida		Robert L. Shevin[42]	Democratic	January 5, 1971	January 2, 1979
	Vermont		M. Jerome Diamond[42]	Democratic	1975	1981
	Rhode Island		Julius C. Michaelson[42]	Democratic	January 7, 1975	January 2, 1979
	New York		Robert Abrams[42]	Democratic	January 1, 1979	December 31, 1993
	Maryland		Stephen H. Sachs[42]	Democratic	January 17, 1979	January 21, 1987
	Connecticut		Joe Lieberman[42]	Democratic	January 5, 1983	January 3, 1989
	Connecticut		Richard Blumenthal[42]	Democratic	January 9, 1991	January 5, 2011
	Ohio		Lee Fisher[42]	Democratic	January 14, 1991	January 9, 1995
	New York		Oliver Koppell[91]	Democratic	January 1, 1993	December 31, 1994
	Rhode Island		Jeffrey B. Pine[42]	Republican	January 5, 1993	January 2, 1999
	New Jersey		Deborah Poritz[92]	Republican	1994	1996
	New York		Eliot Spitzer[42]	Democratic	January 17, 2007	January 21, 2015
	New Jersey		David Sampson[93]	Unaffiliated	January 15, 2002	February 15, 2003
	New Jersey		Stuart Rabner[94]	Democratic	September 26, 2006	June 26, 2007
	Maryland		Doug Gansler[95]	Democratic	January 17, 2007	January 21, 2015
	Louisiana		Buddy Caldwell[96]	Democratic	January 14, 2008	February 2, 2011
				Republican	February 2, 2011	January 11, 2016
	New York		Eric Schneiderman[97]	Democratic	January 1, 2011	May 8, 2018
	Arizona		Tom Horne[98]	Republican	January 3, 2011	January 5, 2015
	Georgia		Sam Olens[99]	Republican	January 10, 2011	November 1, 2016
	Oregon		Ellen Rosenblum[100]	Democratic	June 29, 2012	Incumbent
	Delaware		Matthew Denn[101]	Democratic	January 6, 2015	January 1, 2019
	Maryland		Brian Frosh[102]	Democratic	January 21, 2015	Incumbent
	North Carolina		Josh Stein[103]	Democratic	January 1, 2017	Incumbent
	Pennsylvania		Josh Shapiro[104]	Democratic	January 17, 2017	Incumbent
	Michigan		Dana Nessel[105]	Democratic	January 1, 2019	Incumbent
	Colorado		Phil Weiser[106]	Democratic	January 8, 2019	Incumbent

Scholars

• Floyd Abrams, William J. Brennan Jr. visiting Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, expert on constitutional law that has argued in front of the Supreme Court on 13 occasions[107]
• Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, legal scholar[108]
• Alexander Bickel, legal scholar and Constitutional expert[109]
• Alan Dershowitz, former Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, author
• Richard Epstein, legal scholar and Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University[110]
• Noah Feldman, author and Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School[111]
• Arthur Lehman Goodhart, Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford[112]
• Risa L. Goluboff, Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law[113]
• 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[114][115][116][117]
• Michael Klarman, Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School
• Nathan Lewin, lawyer for the Zivotofsky v. Clinton case, visiting professor, professor and First Amendment advocate [118]
• Jeffrey Rosen, constitutional scholar and president and CEO of the National Constitution Center[119]
• David Schizer, Dean of Columbia Law School (2004-2014)[120]
• Robert A. Stein, Everett Fraser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota
• Larry Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor atHarvard Law School[121]

Public figures

• Leslie Abramson, lawyer known for her role in the legal defense of Lyle and Erik Menendez[122]
• Gloria Allred, lawyer and radio talk show host[123]
• Ben Brafman, American criminal defense attorney[124]
• Marcia Clark, prosecutor and television correspondent known for being the lead prosecutor in the O. J. Simpson murder trial[125]
• Roy Cohn, lawyer, chief-council for the Army–McCarthy hearings[126]
• Ed Fagan, reparations lawyer, disbarred in New York[127] and New Jersey for stealing money from Holocaust survivors[128]
• Geoffrey Fieger, American attorney and occasional legal commentator for NBC and MSNBC[129]
• Bertram Fields, Harvard-trained lawyer, famous for his work in the field of entertainment law[123]
• Richard L. Fox, tax attorney[130]
• Benjamin Ginsberg, Republican election lawyer[131]
• Jane C. Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia Law School[132][133]
• Martin D. Ginsburg, American lawyer who specialized in tax law[134]
• Stephen Harmelin, lawyer who specializes in corporate and transactional law[135]
• Ed Koch, politician, lawyer, political commentator, film critic, and television personality[136]
• William Kunstler, U.S. lawyer famous for defending controversial "radical" clients such as the "Chicago Seven" protesters of the 1968 Democratic National Convention[137]
• Samuel Leibowitz, defense attorney for the Scottsboro Boys[138]
• Ari Melber, chief legal correspondent for MSNBC[139]
• Peter Neufeld, founding partner in the civil rights law firm Neufeld Scheck & Brustinco, founder of the Innocence Project and defense lawyer for O.J. Simpson[140]
• Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project and defense lawyer for O.J. Simpson[141]
• Jerome J. Shestack, president of the American Bar Association (1997-1998)[142]
• Judy Sheindlin, star of Judge Judy, author, television personality, former Manhattan family court judge, civil court judge, and prosecutor[143][144][145]
• Ben Shapiro, conservative political commentator, author, and attorney[146]
• Robert Shapiro, American lawyer and defense lawyer for O.J. Simpson[147]
• Arlen Specter, lawyer, author, and United States Senator from Pennsylvania[148][149]
• Jeffrey Toobin, lawyer, author and legal analyst for CNN and The New Yorker[150]

Notes

1. State of residence at the time of appointment. For example, in 1971, Rehnquist was appointed from Arizona, but in 1986, when elevated to chief justice, he was appointed from Virginia.[1]
2. The start date given for each justice is the day the justice took the prescribed judicial oath of office, with the end date being the date of the justice's death, resignation, or retirement.[1]

Other topics of interest

• List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the United States
• List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States
• List of African-American jurists
• List of Asian American jurists
• List of Hispanic/Latino American jurists
• List of Native American jurists

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