Leonard Sand
| Leonard B. Sand | |
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| Senior Judge of United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
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In office July 1, 1993 – December 3, 2016 |
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| Judge of United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
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In office May 19, 1978 – July 1, 1993 |
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| Appointed by | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Charles M. Metzner |
| Succeeded by | Barrington Daniels Parker, Jr. |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 24, 1928 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | December 3, 2016 (aged 88) Sleepy Hollow, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
New York University (B.S.) Harvard Law School (LL.B.) |
Leonard Burke Sand (May 24, 1928 – December 3, 2016) was an American federal judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Judge Sand was born and raised in the Bronx. He received a B.S. from the New York University School of Commerce (now the New York University Stern School of Business) in 1947 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1951, where he was Note Editor for the Harvard Law Review. Sand served as a United States Naval Reserve Ensign from 1951-1953.
After law school, Judge Sand served as a law clerk to Judge Irving R. Kaufman, then on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. In 1953, Sand was appointed Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving in the Criminal Division, which was followed by two years in private practice with the firm of Rosenman, Goldmark, Colin & Kaye (later renamed Rosenman & Colin, LLP). From 1956 to 1959, he served as an assistant to the United States Solicitor General in Washington, during which he argued 13 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Sand then reentered private practice in New York, eventually becoming a named partner of the firm then known as Robinson, Silverman, Pearce, Aronsohn, Sand & Berman (renamed Robinson, Silverman, Pearce, Aronsohn, and Berman after Sand's appointment to the bench). While in private practice, he successfully argued WMCA, Inc. v. Lomenzo, 377 U.S. 633 (1964), before the Supreme Court of the United States, a redistricting case decided in tandem with Reynolds v. Sims. The Court had set aside a week to hear nothing but reapportionment cases, and Sand was the first litigator to argue that week. He recalled being bombarded with questions from the justices. He was elected as a Delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1967.
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