David Gershon Trager (December 23, 1937 – January 5, 2011) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
David G. Trager
New York Eastern District Court
Born 1937 in Mount Vernon, NY
Died 2011 in Brooklyn, NY
FJC ID: 2403
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 10/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 54/year
New York Eastern District Court · 1993–2011
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
Member · 2009–2010
Faculty · 1972–1974, 1978–1993- ↳associate professor of law · 1972–1974
- ↳professor of law · 1978–1993
- ↳dean · 1983–1993
- New York State Temporary Commission on InvestigationsChairman · 1983–1990
- Mayor's Committee on the Judiciary, New York CityMember · 1981–1989
U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York1974–1978
Assistant U.S. attorney · 1970–1972- New York State Court of AppealsLaw clerk , Hon. Kenneth B. Keating · 1968–1969
- New York State Court of AppealsLaw clerk , Hon. Stanley H. Fuld · 1969
- Private practice, New York City1963–1967
- New York CityAssistant corporation counsel · 1967
Appointments
- 1993–2011 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1962- Columbia UniversityB.A. · 1959