Charles Proctor Sifton (March 18, 1935 – November 9, 2009) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 1977 to 2009 and its Chief Judge from 1995 to 2000.
Charles Proctor Sifton
New York Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Born 1935 in New York, NY
Died 2009 in Brooklyn, NY
FJC ID: 2188
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 5/year
New York Eastern District Court · 1977–2009
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 1998–2001
- Private practice, New York City1961–1962, 1964–1966, 1969–1977
Assistant U.S. attorney · 1966–1969- ↳chief appellate attorney · 1968–1969
- U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign RelationsStaff counsel · 1962–1964
- Georg August University, Gottingen, GermanyFulbright Scholar · 1957–1958
Appointments
1977–2009 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1961- Harvard CollegeB.A. · 1957