• Supreme Court of the United States

  Judge

  1955 – 1971 · 16 yrsAppointed by Dwight Eisenhower

• Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  Judge

  1954 – 1955 · 1 yrAppointed by Dwight Eisenhower

Career

• Chief counsel

  New York State Crime Commission

  1951 – 1953 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  New York City

  1945 – 1954 · 9 yrs

• U.S. Army

  chief of Operations Analysis Section, Air Corps

  1943 – 1945 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  New York City

  1931 – 1943 · 12 yrs

• Special assistant to the attorney general

  State of New York

  1928 – 1930 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  New York City

  1927 – present · 99 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Southern District of New York

  1925 – 1926 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  New York City

  1924 – 1925 · 1 yr

Education