Harold Arnold Ackerman

Harold Arnold Ackerman (February 15, 1928 – December 2, 2009) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Education and career Ackerman was born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in nearby Irvington, where he graduated from Irvington High School before earning his undergraduate degree at Seton Hall University. He received a Bachelor of Laws from Rutgers Law School in 1951. He engaged in the private practice of law in New Jersey from 1951 to 1954. From 1955 to 1979, he was a judge on various New Jersey courts - on the Compensation Court of the State of New Jersey (1955–1965); the Union County District Court (to 1970); the Union County Court until (to 1973); the Superior Court, Law Division (to 1975); and the Superior Court, Chancery Division, General Equity (to 1979). Federal judicial service