Jack Bertrand Weinstein (August 10, 1921 – June 15, 2021) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Until his entry into inactive senior status on February 10, 2020, he maintained a full docket of cases.
Jack Bertrand Weinstein
New York Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Born 1921 in Wichita, KS
Died 2021 in Great Neck, NY
FJC ID: 2539
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 43/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 29/year
New York Eastern District Court · 1967–2021
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
Adjunct professor · 1987–present- Columbia University Law SchoolFaculty · 1952–1998
- ↳professor of law · 1956–1967
- ↳adjunct professor · 1967–1998
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 1983–1986
- Nassau County, New YorkCounty attorney · 1963–1965
- Private practice, New York City1950–1952
- New York State Court of AppealsLaw clerk , Hon. Stanley Fuld · 1949–1950
- Columbia UniversityLecturer · 1948–1949
U.S. Navy lieutenant1943–1946
Appointments
1967–2021 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1948- Brooklyn CollegeB.A. · 1943