Morris Lasker

Morris Edward Lasker (July 17, 1917 – December 25, 2009) was a United States federal judge.

Born in Hartsdale, New York, Lasker received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1938 and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1941. He was a staff attorney of U.S. Senate Committee Investigating National Defense Programs from 1941 to 1942. He served in the United States Army during World War II, from 1942 to 1946. He was in private practice in New York City from 1946 to 1968, also serving as a town attorney of New Castle, New York, from 1955 to 1957, and as a justice of the peace from 1957 to 1958.

On November 28, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Lasker to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by Richard H. Levet. Lasker was recommended by Senator Robert Kennedy and temporarily held up by Senator Jacob K. Javits, but he was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 24, 1968, and received commission the same day. After Senator Kennedy's assassination Senator Javits personally escorted Lasker to the Senate Judiciary hearing and apologized for holding up Lasker's confirmation. He assumed senior status on October 3, 1983.

In 1994 he and his wife moved to the Boston, Massachusetts area so that they could be closer to their children. From then until his death he served as a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, by special designation. He died of cancer at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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