Harrie B. Chase

Harrie Brigham Chase (August 9, 1889 – November 17, 1969) was an American lawyer and judge. He served briefly on the Supreme Court of Vermont, and then was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for forty years, twenty-six of them in active service.

Chase was born in Whitingham, Vermont on August 9, 1889. He attended Whitingham public schools, Wilmington High School, and Phillips Exeter Academy. He attended Dartmouth College, receiving an A.B. in 1909, and the Boston University School of Law, receiving an LL.B. in 1912. Admitted to the Vermont bar in 1912, he formed a partnership with his father in October of that year and continued to practice law until 1919 From February 1, 1919 to June 1919, he served as state's attorney of Windham County, Vermont. Governor Percival W. Clement appointed him sixth superior judge on May 16, 1919, and at the time was one of the youngest people to become a judge in the state. He served as a superior court judge until 1927, and was chief judge from 1926 to 1927. He was an associate justice on the Supreme Court of Vermont from 1927 to 1929.

In 1929, the United States Congress created a new judgeship on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (45 Stat. 1081). President Calvin Coolidge (a native Vermonter) decided to appoint a judge from Vermont to the court and selected the little-known Chase on January 19, 1929. His appointment disappointed Learned Hand and his New York City circle, who had pressed Coolidge to elevate Thomas D. Thacher of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York instead.

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