Jack B. Weinstein
| Jack B. Weinstein | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | |
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Assumed office March 1, 1993 |
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| Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | |
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In office 1980–1988 |
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| Preceded by | Jacob Mishler |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Collier Platt, Jr. |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | |
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In office April 15, 1967 – March 1, 1993 |
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| Appointed by | Lyndon Johnson |
| Preceded by | Leo R. Rayfiel |
| Succeeded by | John Gleeson |
| Personal details | |
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August 10, 1921 Wichita, Kansas |
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Brooklyn College Columbia Law School |
Jack Bertrand Weinstein (born August 10, 1921) is a United States federal judge in the Eastern District of New York. Weinstein was appointed in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson. From 1980 to 1988, he served as chief judge of the district. On March 1, 1993, he took senior status; however, unlike some senior judges, he has maintained a full docket.
Weinstein was born into a Jewish family living temporarily in Wichita, Kansas, in 1921, and raised partly in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. He graduated from Brooklyn College with a B.A. in 1943. During World War II he served as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. His duties included serving as deck officer on board the submarine USS Jallao, where he also ran the radar equipment. He graduated from Columbia Law School with an L.L.B. in 1948.
After law school he worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, was a member of the litigation team for Brown v. Board of Education, and worked on the "one man, one vote" litigation of the 1960s. His colleagues included future Columbia Law colleagues such as Charles Black and Jack Greenberg. He was a law clerk to Hon. Stanley Fuld, New York State Court of Appeals, from 1949 to 1950. He also worked for Republican State Senator Seymour Halpern. He was a County attorney of Nassau County, New York from 1955 to 1957.
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