Harold H. Greene
| Harold Herman Greene | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
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In office May 19, 1978 – August 6, 1995 |
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| Appointed by | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | John J. Sirica |
| Succeeded by | Colleen Kollar-Kotelly |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 6, 1923 Frankfurt, Germany |
| Died | January 29, 2000 (aged 76) Washington, D.C. |
| Alma mater |
George Washington University George Washington University Law School |
Harold Herman Greene (born Heinz Grünhaus, February 6, 1923 – January 29, 2000) was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was nominated by President Jimmy Carter in 1978.
Greene was born Heinz Grünhaus in Frankfurt, Germany. When he was 20 years old, his family fled the Nazi regime to Belgium, Vichy France, Portugal, and finally the United States in 1943, during World War II. Greene enlisted in the United States Army and interrogated German prisoners for military intelligence. He received his BA in 1949 from George Washington University and law degree in 1952 from George Washington University Law School. From 1952 to 1953, Greene clerked for Bennett Champ Clark, a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Next, Greene was assistant United States attorney for Washington, D.C. until 1957 and chief of appeals research for the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division from 1957 to 1965. At the Justice Department, Greene helped create the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. Greene was a judge for D.C. regional courts: judge for the Court of General Sessions from 1956 to 1966, chief judge for that court until 1971, and chief judge for the D.C. Superior Court from 1971 to 1978.
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