Morton Ira Greenberg
| Morton Greenberg | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit | |
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In office March 23, 1987 – June 30, 2000 |
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| Appointed by | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Leonard Garth |
| Succeeded by | Michael Chertoff |
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| Born |
March 20, 1933 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education |
University of Pennsylvania (BA) Yale University (LLB) |
Morton Ira Greenberg (born March 20, 1933) is a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was nominated by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on February 11, 1987 and was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 20, 1987.
Greenberg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1933 but moved to Atlantic City, New Jersey at a young age. Greenberg is Jewish. After graduating high school, he attended the University of Pennsylvania where he received a B.A. in 1954. He then attended Yale Law School where he received an LL.B. in 1957. At Yale, he was a member of the Yale Law Journal.
After leaving Yale, he moved to Trenton, New Jersey, and began working in the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General during the administration of Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner, where he remained until 1960. In 1960, he left the Attorney General's Office and entered private practice in Cape May, New Jersey. From 1970 to 1971, he was the County Attorney for Cape May County. In 1971, he returned to the Attorney General's Office as the Assistant Attorney General for the State of New Jersey. In 1973, he was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey. He served in the trial divisions—first in the law division then in the chancery division—until 1980, when he was appointed as a Judge in the New Jersey Appellate Division.
Greenberg was nominated by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to fill a seat on the Third Circuit court vacated by Leonard I. Garth on February 11, 1987 and was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 20, 1987. He received his commission on March 23, 1987 and assumed senior status on the court on June 30, 2000. As a senior judge, he continues to hear cases. His seat was filled on April 4, 2006 by Michael Chagares. When Judge Greenberg was first appointed to the Third Circuit, Michael Chagares was one of his first law clerks, so this is a rare example of a judge and his law clerk serving on the same court and even serving in the same seat.
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