• District Court, District of Columbia

  Judge

  1950 – 1971 · 21 yrsAppointed by Harry S. Truman

Career

• Legal adviser, U.S. Delegation to UN Conference on Freedom of the Press

  Geneva, Switzerland

  1948 – present · 78 yrs

• Assistant solicitor general

  U.S. Department of Justice

  1946 – 1949 · 3 yrs

• acting solicitor general

  1946 – 1947 · 1 yr

• Special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States

  1944 – 1946 · 2 yrs

• Chief, U.S. Lend-Lease Mission

  Teheran, Iran

  1943 – 1944 · 1 yr

• professor of law

  1942 – present · 84 yrs

• Attorney

  Office of Emergency Management

  1942 – present · 84 yrs

• U.S. economic representative

  Baghdad, Iraq

  1942 – 1943 · 1 yr

• Faculty

  Cornell University Law School

  1938 – 1942 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  New York City

  1932 – 1938 · 6 yrs

Education