This is a list of notable Jewish American jurists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see Lists of American Jews.
Supreme Court of the United States
Justice State Position Succeeded Date confirmed(vote) Tenure Tenure length Nominated by 67 Louis Brandeis(1856–1941) MA (47–22) –February 13, 1939(retired) Woodrow Wilson 75 Benjamin N. Cardozo(1870–1938) NY (acclamation) –July 9, 1938(died) Herbert Hoover 78 Felix Frankfurter(1882–1965) MA (acclamation) –August 28, 1962(retired) Franklin D. Roosevelt 94 Arthur Goldberg(1908–1990) IL (acclamation) –July 25, 1965(Resigned) John F. Kennedy 95 Abe Fortas(1910–1982) TN (acclamation) –May 14, 1969(Resigned) Lyndon B. Johnson 107 Ruth Bader Ginsburg(1933–2020) NY (96–3) –(died) Bill Clinton 108 Stephen Breyer(born 1938) MA (87–9) –(retired) 112 Elena Kagan(born 1960) MA (63–37) –Incumbent Barack Obama
United States courts of appeals
# Judge Circuit State Began activeservice Ended activeservice Ended seniorstatus Reason fortermination Appointed by IL death Taft — reassigned solely to Second Cir. — reassigned to Second Cir. and Sixth Cir. NY — resignation Harding NY — death F. Roosevelt PA death Truman DC death Truman MD death Eisenhower NJ death Eisenhower The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014), p. 304 NY death Kennedy PA — death Johnson DC — death Johnson NY death Johnson TX death Johnson NJ death Nixon NY — death Ford LA death Carter GA — reassigned to Eleventh Cir. Carter death CT — — Carter PA death Carter DC — resignation Carter CA death Carter DC — elevation to Supreme Court Carter MA — elevation to Supreme Court Carter The Bench Burner: An interview with Richard Posner , Reprint of article from New Yorker by Larissa MacFarquhar, Dec. 10, 2001: "Posner grew up in New York – first in Manhattan and then in Scarsdale. His mother's relatives were Jews from Vienna who looked down on his father's family, which was from Romania and poorer than they were. 'They were all poor,' Posner says, 'but my mothers family had toilet paper, and my father's family had newspaper.' " IL — retirement Reagan PA death Reagan Jews in American Politics By Louis Sandy Maisel, Ira N. Forman, Donald Altschiller pg 456 IL death Reagan NY death Reagan DC death Reagan CA — resignation Reagan DC — — Reagan RI death Reagan NJ death Reagan NJ — — Reagan LA — — G.H.W. Bush AK death G.H.W. Bush MA retirement G.H.W. Bush NH death G.H.W. Bush IL Incumbent — — G.H.W. Bush CT — — Clinton DC — resignation Clinton AZ — — Clinton OR — — Clinton NY death Clinton NY — — Clinton NY death Clinton WA Incumbent — — Clinton DC Incumbent — — G.W. Bush NM Incumbent—— G.W. Bush NJ — resignation G.W. Bush CA Incumbent — — G.W. Bush MI — — G.W. Bush DC — — Obama AZ — — Obama OK Incumbent — — Obama Leichman, Abigail Klein. "Blocked judge has roots in Jewish community; Obama nominee impressed her peers at Hebrew school", New Jersey Jewish News, January 11, 2012. Accessed April 10, 2013. NJ Incumbent — — Obama CA Incumbent — — Obama MA Incumbent — — Obama FL Incumbent — — Obama MD Incumbent — — Obama MN Incumbent — — Trump DC Incumbent — — Trump CA Incumbent — — Trump NY Incumbent — — Trump FL Incumbent — — Trump CO Incumbent — — Biden NY Incumbent — — Biden MA Incumbent — — Biden OH Incumbent — — Biden MD Incumbent — — Biden
United States district courts
Ronnie Abrams, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (2012–present) Harold A. Ackerman, senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (1994–2009), judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (1979–1994) Lynn S. Adelman, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (1997–present) Roy Altman, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (2019–present) Sidney Aronovitz, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1988–1997), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1976–1988) Marvin Aspen, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2002–present), chief judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1995–2002), judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1979–2002) Nancy Atlas, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (2014–2022), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (1994–2014) Harold Baer Jr., senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (2004–2014), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1994–2004) Peter Beer, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1994–2018), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1979–1994) Richard M. Berman, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (2011–present), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1998–2011) Alexander Bicks, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1954–1963) Norman William Black, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (1996–1997), chief judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (1992–1996), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (1979–1996) Alan N. Bloch, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1997–2024), judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1979–1997) Frederic Block, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2005–present), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1994–2005) Beth Bloom, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (2014–present) Mosher Joseph Blumenfeld, senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (1977–1988), chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (1971–1974), district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (1961–1977) Stanley Blumenfeld, Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California (2020–present) Charles Breyer, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (2011–present), judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (1997–2011) Stanley Brotman, senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (1990–2014), judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (1975–1990) Naomi Reice Buchwald, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (2012–present), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1999–2012) Allison D. Burroughs, district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (2014–present) Deborah K. Chasanow, senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland (2014–present), chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland (2010–2014), judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland (1993–2014) Robert N. Chatigny, senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (2017–present), chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (2003–2009), judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (1994–2017) Brian Cogan, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2020–present), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2006–2020) Mark Howard Cohen, judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (2014–present) Avern Cohn, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1999–2022), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1979–1999) James I. Cohn, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (2016–present), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (2003–2016) Florence-Marie Cooper, judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California (1999–2010) Irving Ben Cooper, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1972–1996), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1961–1972) Susan J. Dlott, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (2018–present), chief judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (2009–2015), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (1995–2018)Kristina Goetz, The biggest case in town is in her court: Mediation on profiling is an effort to calm the storm, Cincinnati Enquirer (February 17, 2002). Jan E. DuBois, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2002–2026), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1988–2002) David Norton Edelstein, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1994–2000), chief judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1971–1980), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1951–1994) Paul A. Engelmayer, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (2011–present) Gary Feinerman, judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2010–present) Martin Leach-Cross Feldman, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1983–2022) Sandra J. Feuerstein, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2015–2021), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2003–2015) Sherman Glenn Finesilver, senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado (1994), chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado (1982–1994), judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado (1971–1974) Herbert Allan Fogel, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1973–1978) Jeremy Fogel, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (2014–2018), judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (1998–2014) Marvin E. Frankel, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1965–1978) Emerich B. Freed, district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (1941–1955) Frank Harlan Freedman, senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1992–2003), chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1986–1992), judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1972–1992) Beth Labson Freeman, judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (2014–present)