Frank Herbert Norcross (May 11, 1869 – November 4, 1952) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.
Frank Herbert Norcross
Born 1869 in Reno, NV
Died 1952 in San Francisco, CA
FJC ID: 1777
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 16/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 26/year
Nevada District Court · 1928–1952
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
- Private practice, Reno, Nevada1899–1904, 1917–1928
- Supreme Court of NevadaJustice · 1904–1916
- ↳chief justice · 1909–1911, 1915–1916
- NevadaState assemblyman · 1897–1899
- Washoe County, NevadaDistrict attorney · 1895–1897
Appointments
1928–1952 · Appointed by Calvin Coolidge (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- Georgetown College Law School (now Georgetown University Law Center)LL.B. · 1894
- Nevada State University (now University of Nevada, Reno)A.B. · 1891