Robert Lee Carter (March 11, 1917 – January 3, 2012) was an American lawyer, civil rights activist and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Robert Lee Carter
New York Southern District Court
Born 1917 in Careyville, FL
Died 2012 in New York, NY
FJC ID: 392
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 26/year
New York Southern District Court · 1972–2012
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
- African American
Prior employment
- Private practice, New York City1969–1972
- Columbia University Urban CenterFellow · 1968–1969
- NAACP1944–1968
- ↳legal assistant · 1944–1945
- ↳assistant special counsel · 1945–1956
- ↳general counsel · 1956–1968
Special assistant U.S. attorney · 1962- veteran affairs, American Veterans CommitteeDirector · 1948–1949
Air CorpsU.S. Army lieutenant · 1941–1944
Appointments
1972–2012 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.M. · 1941
LL.B. · 1940- Lincoln University, PennsylvaniaA.B. · 1937