Edward Robert Korman (born October 25, 1942) is a senior United States district judge serving on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, New York.
Edward Robert Korman
New York Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Born 1942 in New York, NY
FJC ID: 1309
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 6/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 23/year
New York Eastern District Court · 1985–2007
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
- New York Temporary Commission of InvestigationCommissioner · 1983–1985
Professor · 1984–1985- Private practice, New York City1968–1970, 1982–1984
U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York1978–1982
Assistant U.S. attorney · 1970–1972, 1974–1978- ↳chief assistant U.S. attorney · 1974–1978
- U.S. Department of JusticeAssistant to the solicitor general · 1972–1974
- New York State Court of AppealsLaw clerk , Hon. Kenneth Keating · 1966–1968
Appointments
- 1985–2007 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Education
LL.M. · 1971- LL.B. · 1966
- Brooklyn College, City University of New YorkB.A. · 1963