Myron L. Gordon (February 11, 1918 – November 3, 2009) was an American lawyer and jurist from Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, serving from 1967 until taking senior status in 1983. He previously served five years as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and was a Wisconsin circuit court judge for seven years in Milwaukee County.
Myron L. Gordon
Wisconsin Eastern District Court
Born 1918 in Kenosha, WI
Died 2009 in Palm Desert, CA
FJC ID: 890
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 4/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 70/year
Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1962–1967Wisconsin Eastern District Court · 1967–2009
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
- Wisconsin Supreme CourtAssociate justice · 1961–1967
- Wisconsin Circuit CourtJudge · 1954–1961
- Milwaukee County [Wisconsin] Civil CourtJudge · 1950–1954
- Private practice, Milwaukee, Wisconsin1945–1950
- U.S. Naval Reserve1942–1945
Appointments
1967–2009 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- Mount Mary Universityba
- Harvard Universityjd
LL.B. · 1942- University of WisconsinB.A. · 1939
- University of WisconsinM.A. · 1939