Phillip Forman (November 30, 1895 – August 17, 1978) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Phillip Forman
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
Born 1895 in New York, NY
Died 1978 in Trenton, NJ
FJC ID: 781
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 9/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 174/year
New Jersey District Court · 1932–1959Third Circuit Court of Appeals · 1959–1978
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 · 1957–1959
- Private practice, Trenton, New Jersey1919–1932
U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey1928–1932- District of New JerseyAssistant U.S. attorney · 1923–1928
U.S. Navy1917–1919
Appointments
1959–1978 · Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)Term ended: Death
1932–1959 · Appointed by Herbert Hoover (Republican)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- Temple University School of Law (now James E. Beasley School of Law)LL.B. · 1919