Robert Workman Sweet (October 15, 1922 – March 24, 2019) was an American jurist and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Robert Workman Sweet
New York Southern District Court
Born 1922 in Yonkers, NY
Died 2019 in Ketchum, ID
FJC ID: 2324
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 1/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 27/year
New York Southern District Court · 1978–2019
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
- Private practice, New York City1948–1953, 1955–1965, 1970–1978
- New York Transit Authority, Brooklyn, New YorkHearing officer · 1975–1977
- Association for a Better New York, New York CityConsultant · 1970–1975
- New York CityDeputy mayor · 1966–1969
- Mayor John V. Lindsay, New York CityExecutive assistant · 1966
- New York State Interdepartmental Task Force on Youth and Juvenile DelinquencyCounsel · 1958
Assistant U.S. attorney · 1953–1955
U.S. Navy lieutenant junior grade1943–1946
Appointments
1978–2019 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1948- Yale UniversityB.A. · 1944