Martin Leach-Cross Feldman
| Martin Feldman | |
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| Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court | |
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Assumed office May 19, 2010 |
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| Preceded by | George Kazen |
| Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana | |
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Assumed office October 5, 1983 |
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| Appointed by | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Jack Gordon |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 28, 1934 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Tulane University (BA; JD) |
| Religion |
Roman Catholicism (Formerly Judaism) |
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| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army
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| Years of service | 1957–1963 |
| Rank |
 Captain
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| Unit |
Judge Advocate General's Corps United States Army Reserve |
Martin Leach-Cross Feldman (born January 28, 1934) is a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He was nominated by U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan on September 9, 1983, to a seat vacated by Jack Murphy Gordon. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 4, 1983, and received his commission the following day.
Feldman was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Joseph and Zelma Bosse Feldman. In 1955, he received a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana; in 1957, a Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School. He was a member of the Order of the Coif. He was a United States Army JAG Corps Reserve Captain from 1957 to 1963. Feldman served as a law clerk to John Minor Wisdom, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1957 to 1959. Feldman had a private practice in New Orleans from 1959 to 1983.
In 1959, he became a member of the fledgling Orleans Parish Republican Executive Committee. He also headed the New Orleans Young Republicans Club and worked in the 1960 campaign for Richard M. Nixon in Louisiana, but the state handily cast its electoral votes for John F. Kennedy. He worked in the Barry M. Goldwater campaign in 1964, when Goldwater became only the second Republican since Reconstruction to carry Louisiana. Feldman was a Louisiana delegate to the 1968 and the 1972 Republican National Conventions, both of which met in Miami Beach, Florida, to nominate the Nixon-Agnew tickets, which in the second campaign won in forty-nine states. Feldman was among seventy-one Jewish delegates (prior to his conversion to Roman Catholicism) and alternates to the convention.
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