Frank Morey Coffin (July 11, 1919 – December 7, 2009) was an American politician and judge from Maine who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Frank Morey Coffin
First Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Born 1919 in Lewiston, ME
Died 2009 in Portland, ME
FJC ID: 466
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 45/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 1,020/year
First Circuit Court of Appeals · 1965–2009
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 · 1972–1983
Board member · 1971–1972- Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and DevelopmentU.S. representative to development assistance committee · 1964–1965
- U.S. Agency for International DevelopmentDeputy administrator · 1961–1964
- U.S. representative from Maine1957–1961
- Development Loan FundManaging director · 1961
- Private practice, Portland, Maine1953–1956
- Private practice, Lewiston, Maine1946–1953
- Lewiston, MaineCorporation counsel · 1949–1952
Law clerk , Hon. John D. Clifford · 1947–1949
U.S. Navy lieutenant1943–1946
Appointments
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First CircuitChief Judge1965–2009 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1947- Harvard Business SchoolI.A. · 1943
- Bates CollegeA.B. · 1940