Simon Ernest Sobeloff (December 3, 1894 – July 11, 1973) was an American attorney and jurist, who served as Solicitor General of the United States, as Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, and as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Simon E. Sobeloff
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Born 1894 in Baltimore, MD
Died 1973 in Baltimore, MD
FJC ID: 2237
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 27/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 110/year
Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1952–1954Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1956–1973
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 · 1958–1964
Solicitor general of the United States1954–1956- Maryland Court of AppealsChief judge · 1952–1954
- Private practice, Baltimore, Maryland1914–1919, 1923–1927, 1934–1943, 1947–1952
- Commission on the Administrative Organization of the State of MarylandChairman · 1951–1952
- Baltimore, MarylandCity solicitor · 1943–1947
- U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland1931–1934
- Baltimore, MarylandDeputy city solicitor · 1927–1930
- Baltimore, MarylandAssistant city solicitor · 1919–1923
Appointments
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth CircuitChief Judge1956–1973 · Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)Term ended: Death- 1952–1954
Education
- University of Maryland School of Law (now Francis King Carey School of Law)LL.B. · 1915