Louis F. Oberdorfer
| Louis F. Oberdorfer | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
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In office 1977–1992 |
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| Preceded by | William Blakely Jones |
| Succeeded by | Emmet G. Sullivan |
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Louis Falk Oberdorfer February 21, 1919 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
| Died | February 21, 2013 (aged 94) |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Profession | Federal District Judge |
Louis Falk Oberdorfer (February 21, 1919 – February 21, 2013) was a United States Supreme Court clerk, attorney, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Tax Division, civil rights worker, and district court judge.
Oberdorfer was born in Birmingham, Alabama to A. Leo Oberdorfer, an attorney and author, and Stella Falk Oberdorfer. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1939. He then attended Yale Law School from 1939 until fall 1941, when he was drafted to serve in the United States Army. After four years of military service during World War II, he returned to Yale and graduated in 1946. Oberdorfer served as a clerk for Justice Hugo L. Black, an Alabaman who was a friend and law colleague of Oberdorfer's father, in the Court's October Term 1946 (1946-1947).
After working as Justice Black's sole law clerk during 1946-1947, Oberdorfer went into private practice in Washington D.C. with the firm Paul, Weiss, Wharton & Garrison as a tax attorney until his friend and law school classmate Deputy Attorney General Byron White asked him to join the Robert Kennedy Justice Department in 1961. He was appointed Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division but, because the division was largely well-organized and self-sustaining, he focused his energies on many legal issues, particularly civil rights.
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