Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum
| Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
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In office March 31, 1998 – February 5, 2016 |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
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In office March 4, 1986 – March 31, 1998 |
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| Appointed by | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Charles E. Stewart |
| Succeeded by | Naomi Reice Buchwald |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Miriam Goldman September 16, 1929 Crown Heights, New York |
| Died | February 5, 2016 (aged 86) Manhattan, New York |
| Residence | Manhattan, New York |
| Alma mater |
Barnard College B.A. Columbia Law School LL.B. |
| Profession | Attorney |
| Religion | Jewish |
Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum (September 16, 1929 – February 5, 2016) was a United States District Judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Cedarbaum was nominated by Ronald Reagan on February 3, 1986, to a seat vacated by Charles E. Stewart. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 3, 1986, and received her commission on March 4, 1986. Judge Cedarbaum assumed senior status on March 31, 1998, serving in that status until her death.
Cedarbaum oversaw the case against the would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Tuesday, October 5, 2010. She also presided over the Martha Stewart case.
Born into a middle-class Jewish family, Cedarbaum grew up in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Judge Cedarbaum attended Barnard College (B.A. 1950), and then Columbia Law School (LL.B. 1953).
Cedarbaum was married on August 25, 1957 to the late Bernard Cedarbaum, long-time partner at Carter Ledyard & Milburn, and has two children, Daniel, a lawyer and leader of Reconstructionist Judaism in Chicago, and Jonathan, a lawyer in D.C. who clerked for the now-retired Associate Justice David Souter of the Supreme Court.
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