Morton Ira Greenberg

Morton Ira Greenberg (March 20, 1933 – January 28, 2021) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on February 11, 1987 and was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 20, 1987. He assumed senior status on June 30, 2000. Education and career Greenberg was born in Philadelphia, in 1933 but moved to Atlantic City, New Jersey, at a young age. Greenberg was Jewish. After graduating high school, he attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1954. He then attended Yale Law School, where he received a Bachelor of Laws in 1957. At Yale, he was a member of the Yale Law Journal. After leaving Yale, he moved to Trenton, New Jersey, and began working in the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General during the administration of Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner, where he remained until 1960. In 1960, he left the Attorney General's Office and entered private practice in Cape May, New Jersey. From 1970 to 1971, he was the County Attorney for Cape May County, New Jersey. In 1971, he returned to the Attorney General's Office as the Assistant Attorney General for the State of New Jersey. In 1973, he was appointed a judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey. He served in the trial divisions—first in the law division then in the chancery division—until 1980, when he was appointed a judge in the New Jersey Appellate Division.