Harold Leventhal (January 5, 1915 – November 20, 1979) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Harold Leventhal
District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1915 in New York, NY
Died 1979
FJC ID: 1385
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 11/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 275/year
District of Columbia District Court · 1965–1979District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals · 1965–1979
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, Washington, D.C.1946–1951, 1952–1965
- U.S. Office of Price Administration1940–1943, 1946, 1951–1952
- ↳assistant general counsel · 1940–1943, 1946
- ↳chief counsel · 1951–1952
- U.S. Coast Guard Reserve lieutenant commander1943–1946
- Hon. Robert Jackson, chief U.S. prosecutor, Nuremberg TrialsStaff · 1945–1946
Bituminous Coal Division, U.S. Department of the InteriorChief of litigation · 1939–1940
Office of the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of JusticeAttorney · 1937–1938, 1938–1939
Law clerk , Hon. Harlan Fiske Stone · 1937–1938- Law clerk , Hon. Stanley Reed · 1938
Appointments
1965–1979 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1936- Columbia UniversityA.B. · 1934