Jerome New Frank (September 10, 1889 – January 13, 1957) was an American legal philosopher and author who played a leading role in the legal realism movement. He was chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Jerome New Frank
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1889 in New York, NY
Died 1957 in New Haven, CT
FJC ID: 789
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 24/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 270/year
Second Circuit Court of Appeals · 1941–1957
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
U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionCommissioner · 1937–1941- ↳chairman · 1939–1941
- Private practice, New York City1930–1933, 1936–1937
- Agricultural Adjustment AdministrationGeneral counsel · 1933–1935
- railroad reorganization, Reconstruction Finance CorporationSpecial counsel · 1935
- Yale Law SchoolResearch associate · 1932
- Private practice, Chicago, Illinois1912–1929
Appointments
1941–1957 · Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
J.D. · 1912- University of ChicagoPh.B. · 1909