Joseph Edward Lumbard Jr. (August 18, 1901 – June 3, 1999) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Joseph Edward Lumbard
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Born 1901 in New York, NY
Died 1999 in Fairfield, CT
FJC ID: 1437
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 32/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 229/year
Second Circuit Court of Appeals · 1955–1999
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
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 1960–1971
U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York1953–1955- Private practice, New York City1929–1931, 1934–1953
- Supreme Court of the State of New YorkJustice · 1947
- State of New YorkSpecial assistant attorney general · 1928–1929, 1930, 1936, 1942
Assistant U.S. attorney · 1925–1927, 1931–1933- ↳chief, Criminal Division · 1931–1933
Appointments
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitChief Judge1955–1999 · Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- Fordham University
LL.B. · 1925- Harvard UniversityA.B. · 1922