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 (born 1933)	NY	Associate Justice	B. White	August 3, 1993 (96–3)	August 10, 1993 – Incumbent	26 years, 317 days[lower-alpha 3]	Bill Clinton
108	Stephen Breyer (born 1938)	MA	Associate Justice	Blackmun	July 29, 1994 (87–9)	August 3, 1994 – Incumbent	25 years, 324 days[lower-alpha 3]	Bill Clinton
112	Elena Kagan (born 1960)	MA	Associate Justice	Stevens	August 5, 2010 (63–37)	August 7, 2010 – Incumbent	9 years, 320 days[lower-alpha 3]	Barack Obama

Gloria Allred (1941–), lawyer and radio talk show host[2]
Alan Dershowitz, U.S. lawyer, professor at Harvard Law School, popular author
Arthur Lehman Goodhart, jurist[3]
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[4][5][6][7]
Alex Kozinski, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit judge and popular essayist [8]
William Kunstler, U.S. lawyer famous for defending controversial "radical" clients such as the "Chicago Seven" protesters of the 1968 Democratic National Convention[9]
Samuel Leibowitz, lawyer, defender of the Scottsboro Boys[10]
Julian Mack, early 20th-century United States Circuit Court of Appeals Judge[11][12]
Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project; defense lawyer for O.J. Simpson[13]

Ben Brafman

Leslie Abramson, known for her role in the legal defense of Lyle and Erik Menendez[14]
Ed Fagan, reparations lawyer, disbarred in New York[15] and New Jersey for stealing money from Holocaust survivors[16]
Bertram Fields, Harvard-trained lawyer, famous for his work in the field of entertainment law[2]

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]
The start date given for each justice is the day he or she took the prescribed judicial oath of office, with the end date being the date of the justice's death, resignation, or retirement.[1]
As of June 22, 2020.

"Justices 1789 to Present". www.supremecourt.gov. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
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"
Vento, Arnoldo C. (1998). Mestizo: The History, Culture, and Politics of the Mexican and the Chicano : The Emerging Mestizo-Americans. ISBN 9780761809197.
"VOCES Oral History Project | the University of Texas at Austin".
"[Letter from Jack Greenberg to Pete Tijerina - 1967-01-23]". 1967-01-23.
"[Letter from Pete Tijerina to Jack Greenberg - 1967-02-09]". 1967.
"Legal Affairs".
"World Zionist Organization | WZO". Archived from the original on 2006-08-27. Retrieved 2006-06-10.
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.
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.

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