Edward R. Korman

Edward R. Korman (born October 25, 1942) is a United States Senior District Judge serving on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, NY. He was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on October 2, 1985, confirmed by the United States Senate on November 1, 1985, commissioned on November 4, 1985, and entered service on December 16, 1985, to fill a new seat. Korman served as Chief Judge of the Eastern District of New York from 2000–2007 and took senior status in 2007. In addition to continuing his caseload in Brooklyn, Korman has also sat by designation on the Second, Sixth, and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals from 2008 to present.

Korman is the son of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine and Poland. He earned a B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1966, an LL.B. from Brooklyn Law School in 1966, and an LL.M. from New York University in 1971. From 1966-68, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Kenneth B. Keating, New York Court of Appeals. Korman was an Associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY from 1968-70. In 1970, Korman became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, where he served until 1972.

From 1972-74, Korman was an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States. He then returned to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York, where he served as Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney from 1974–78, and as U.S. Attorney from 1978-82. From 1982-85, Korman worked as partner and of counsel at the firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, New York, NY. During the school year dating 1984-85, Korman taught as a Professor at Brooklyn Law School. Starting in 1983 and continuing until Korman’s appointment to the bench, he was a member of the Temporary Commission of Investigation of the State of New York and Chairman of the Mayor’s Committee on New York City Marshals. Judge Korman is married and has two children.

In 2005, Korman wrote the forward to the book “The Lie That Wouldn’t Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” by Haddassa Ben-Itto. He wrote an essay in 2006 titled “Rewriting the Holocaust History of the Swiss Banks: A Growing Scandal,” which was published in “Holocaust Restitution: Perspectives on the Litigation and its Legacy,” edited by Michael Bazyler and Roger P. Alford. Korman also co-authored a biographical essay on Judge Kenneth B. Keating of the New York Court of Appeals, published in “The Judges of the New York Court of Appeals, a Biographical History,” edited by Albert M. Rosenthal.

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