Norman Allen Mordue (June 26, 1942 – December 29, 2022) was an American jurist who was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.
Norman A. Mordue
New York Northern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
Born 1942 in Elmira, NY
Died 2022
FJC ID: 2800
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 14/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 17/year
New York Northern District Court · 1998–2022
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
- Supreme Court of the State of New York, Fifth Judicial DistrictJustice · 1985–1998
- Onondaga County [New York] CourtJudge · 1982–1985
- Onondaga County [New York] District Attorney's Office1970–1982
- ↳law clerk · 1970–1972
- ↳assistant district attorney · 1972–1974
- ↳senior assistant district attorney · 1974–1976
- ↳chief assistant district attorney · 1976–1982
U.S. Army captain1966–1968
Adjunct professor of law
Appointments
1998–2022 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- J.D. · 1971
- Syracuse UniversityB.A. · 1966