Eugene Nickerson
| Eugene Nickerson | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | |
| Title: | Former Judge |
| Position: | Seat #3 |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Jimmy Carter |
| Active: | 10/21/1977 - 1/1/1994 |
| Senior: | 1/1/1994 - 1/1/2002 |
| Preceded by: | Orrin Judd |
| Succeeded by: | Frederic Block |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | August 2, 1918 |
| Home State: | Orange, NJ |
| Deceased: | January 1, 2002 |
| Bachelors: | Harvard, B.A., 1941 |
| Law School: | Columbia Law, LL.B., 1943 |
Contents |
Early life and education
- Harvard University, B.A., 1941
- Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1943[1]
Professional career
- Law clerk, Hon. Augustus N. Hand, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1943-1944
- Law clerk, Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, Supreme Court of the United States, 1944-1946
- Private practice, New York City, 1946-1961
- Nassau county executive, Nassau County, New York, 1962-1970
- Private practice, New York City, 1971-1977[1]
Judicial career
Eastern District of New York
Nickerson was nominated by Jimmy Carter on August 16, 1977, to a seat vacated by Orrin Judd; he was confirmed by the Senate on October 20, 1977, and received commission the next day. He assumed senior status on January 1, 1994, and served in that position until his death on January 1, 2002.[1] Nickerson was succeeded in this position by Frederic Block.
See also
External links
- Archived articles about Nickerson from the New York Times].
- Obituary from the New York Times.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Eugene Nickerson's Biography from the Federal Judicial Center.
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Orrin Judd |
Eastern District of New York 1977–2002 Seat #3 |
Succeeded by: Frederic Block |
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| 1977 |
Ballantine • Bownes • Boyle • Bua • Carr • Clark • Cowan • Daly • Filippine • Higginbotham • Hoeveler • Hug • Johnstone • Kane • Keith • Leval • Logan • MacLaughlin • McKay • Melton • Merritt • Murphy • Nickerson • Oberdorfer • Roszkowski • Roy • Rubin • Sifton • Tang • Vance • Veron | ||
| 1978 |
Arnold • Baker • Boyle • Burns • Campos • Claiborne • Collins • Cook • Devine • Diamond • Duplantier • Edenfield • Friedman • Gonzalez • Greene • Jenkins • Lowe • Mazzone • McMillian • O'Brien • Pfaelzer • Phillips • Pollak • Sand • Shapiro • Simmons • Smith • Sweet • Tanner • Wiseman • Ziegler | ||
| 1979 |
Ackerman • Alarcon • Anderson • Arceneaux • Arnold • Aspen • Beatty • Beer • Belew • Bertelsman • Bilby • N. Black • S. Black • Bloch • Bowen • Brett • Brooks • Brown • Buchmeyer • Bunton • Burciaga • Cabranes • Carr • Carrigan • Castagna • Cire • Clark • Cohn • Conaboy • Cordova • Crabb • Cudahy • Davis • DeAnda • Debevoise • Edwards • Eginton • Ellison • Enslen • O. Evans • T. Evans • Farris • Ferguson • Fletcher • Frye • Garcia • Garza • B. Gibson • H. Gibson • Gierbolini-Ortiz • Giles • Gilliam • Green • Hall • Hastings • Hatchett • Hatfield • Hatter • Hawkins • Henderson • Higby • Hillman • Houck • Howard • Hudspeth • Hungate • F. Johnson • S. Johnson • N. Jones • S. Jones • Karlton • Kazen • Kearse • Keeton • Kehoe • Kennedy • Kidd • King • Kravitch • Loughlin • Martin • McCurn • McDonald • McNaught • McNichols • Mikva • Mitchell • Moran • Murnaghan • Murphy • D. Nelson • D.W. Nelson • Newblatt • Newman • Overton • Paine • Panner • J. Parker • R. Parker • Penn • Perez-Gimenez • Perry • Politz • Poole • Porter • Pregerson • Price • Rambo • Ramirez • Reavley • Redden • E. Reed • S. Reed • Reinhardt • Renner • Robinson • Rothstein • Sachs • Saffels • Sanders • Sarokin • Schroeder • Schwartz • Seay • Senter • Seymour • Shannon • Shaw • Shoob • Skopil • Sloviter • Sofaer • Spellman • Sprouse • Staker • Tate • Taylor • Thompson • Tidwell • Unthank • Vietor • Vining • Wald • Ward • Weinshienk • West • Wicker • Williams • Winder • Woods • Wright • Zobel | ||
| 1980 |
Aguilar • Aldrich • Anderson • Boochever • Breyer • Britt • Cahill • Canby • Carroll • Cerezo • Clemon • S. Ervin • R. Erwin • Getzendanner • Gilmore • Ginsburg • Haltom • Hardy • Henderson • Hobbs • Holschuh • Horton • Howard • Johnson • Keep • Kelly • Kenyon • Kocoras • Marquez • Marshall • Michael • Nixon • Norris • Patel • Polozola • Propst • Quackenbush • Ramsey • Rice • Shadur • Spiegel • Tashima • Thompson • Vela • White • Williams | ||
| 1981 | |||
