• Supreme Court of the United States

  Judge

  1941 – 1954 · 13 yrsAppointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Career

• Chief U.S. prosecutor

  Nuremberg Trials

  1945 – 1946 · 1 yr

• Attorney General of the United States

  1940 – 1941 · 1 yr

• Solicitor general of the United States

  1938 – 1939 · 1 yr

• Assistant attorney general

  Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice

  1936 – 1938 · 2 yrs

• Special counsel

  U.S. Department of the Treasury

  1935 – 1938 · 3 yrs

• Special counsel

  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

  1935 – 1938 · 3 yrs

• General counsel

  Bureau of Internal Revenue, U.S. Department of the Treasury

  1934 – 1935 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1918 – 1934 · 16 yrs

• Corporation counsel

  1918 – 1934 · 16 yrs

• Private practice

  1917 – 1918 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1913 – 1917 · 4 yrs

Education