Frederick van Pelt Bryan (April 27, 1904 – April 17, 1978) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Frederick van Pelt Bryan
New York Southern District Court
Born 1904 in Brooklyn, NY
Died 1978 in New York, NY
FJC ID: 297
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 51/year
New York Southern District Court · 1956–1978
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, New York City1928–1933, 1946–1956
- Temporary Commission on the Courts of the State of New YorkCounsel · 1954–1956
- Temporary State Commission to Study the Organizational Structure of the Government of the City of New YorkMember · 1953–1954
U.S. Army1942–1946- New York CityAssistant corporation counsel · 1933–1942
- ↳first assistant · 1938–1942
Appointments
1956–1978 · Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1928- Columbia UniversityA.B. · 1925