Martin Leach-Cross Feldman

Martin Leach-Cross Feldman (January 28, 1934 – January 26, 2022) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Education and career Feldman was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Joseph and Zelma (Bosse) Feldman. In 1955, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana and, in 1957, a Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School. He was a member of the Order of the Coif. He was a United States Army JAG Corps Reserve Captain from 1957 to 1963. Feldman served as a law clerk to Judge John Minor Wisdom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1957 to 1959. Feldman had a private practice in New Orleans from 1959 to 1983. Political activism Feldman was among seventy-one Jewish delegates (prior to his conversion to Roman Catholicism) and alternates to the convention. In 1974, Feldman lost a race, 67–32, in the Republican State Central Committee to John H. Cade Jr., for selection as Louisiana Republican National Committeeman.