Orrin Grimmell Judd
| Orrin Grimmell Judd | |
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| Judge of United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | |
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In office July 17, 1968 – July 7, 1976 |
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| Appointed by | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Preceded by | Walter Bruchhausen |
| Succeeded by | Eugene Nickerson |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 6, 1906 Brooklyn, New York |
| Died | July 7, 1976 (aged 69) Aspen, Colorado |
| Spouse(s) | Persis Mae Dolloff (m. 1936) |
Orrin Grimmell Judd (September 6, 1906 – July 7, 1976) was a lawyer who served for eight years as a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York. He was a lifelong resident of Brooklyn.
Judd was born on September 6, 1906, in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at Colgate University, and received an A.B. degree in 1926. After Colgate, he attended Harvard Law School, and obtained an LL.B. degree in 1930.
Judd served as the law clerk for Second Circuit Judge Learned Hand in 1930–31.
Judd spent most of his career as an attorney in private practice at the New York City firms of Davies, Auerbach & Cornell and later Goldstein, Judd & Gurfein. He had a varied civil practice, in courts ranging as high as the Court of Appeals of New York and the Supreme Court of the United States.
From 1943 to 1946, Judd served as the Solicitor General of New York State, serving under Governor Thomas E. Dewey. In 1964, he was appointed to fill an unexpired term as Judge of the Surrogate's Court of Kings County (Brooklyn), New York. He served for several months but was defeated in his run for election to a full term.
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