Herbert Funk Goodrich (July 29, 1889 – June 25, 1962) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was also Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Herbert Funk Goodrich
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1889 in Anoka, MN
Died 1962 in Philadelphia, PA
FJC ID: 882
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 27/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 318/year
Third Circuit Court of Appeals · 1940–1962
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
Faculty · 1929–1948- ↳dean/professor of law · 1929–1940
- ↳vice president · 1931–1940
- ↳lecturer in law · 1940–1948
Professor of law · 1922–1929- State University of IowaFaculty · 1914–1922
- ↳instructor in law · 1914–1915
- ↳assistant professor · 1915–1919
- ↳professor · 1919–1921
- ↳acting dean, College of Law · 1921–1922
Appointments
1940–1962 · Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1914- Carleton CollegeA.B. · 1911