Thomas Poole Griesa (October 11, 1930 – December 24, 2017) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1972 to 2017 and its Chief Judge from 1993 to 2000.
Thomas Poole Griesa
New York Southern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Born 1930 in Kansas City, MO
Died 2017 in New York, NY
FJC ID: 917
Career output and lasting influence
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 6/year
New York Southern District Court · 1972–2017
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 City1960–1972
Admiralty and Shipping Section, U.S. Department of JusticeAttorney · 1958–1960- U.S. Coast Guard1952–1954
Appointments
1972–2017 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1958- Harvard UniversityA.B. · 1952