Peter Zimroth

Peter Lenard Zimroth (born January 11, 1943) is an American attorney and court-appointed monitor of the NYPD’s policies and practices regarding stop-and-frisk.

A lifelong resident of New York City, Zimroth is the son of Sol and Ruth (née Sadowsky) Zimroth. Raised in Brooklyn, he attended Abraham Lincoln High School, Columbia College and Yale Law School where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.

After graduating from Yale in 1966, he served as a law clerk to Chief Judge David Bazelon of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and then for Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. In 1970, he became a professor at New York University School of Law. The next year, he represented police detective and whistleblower David Durk during his testimony before the Knapp Commission.

Zimroth later served as an assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the chief assistant District Attorney in Manhattan and the corporation counsel of New York City. He has argued three cases before the United States Supreme Court including Payton v. New York and Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris. Zimroth became a partner at Arnold & Porter in 1990.

On August 12, 2013, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin appointed Zimroth to oversee court-ordered reforms to the NYPD’s policies and training related to stop-and-frisk in Floyd v. City of New York.

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