Dennis Jacobs

Dennis Jacobs
Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In office
October 1, 2006  August 31, 2013
Preceded by John Walker
Succeeded by Robert Katzmann
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Assumed office
October 2, 1992
Appointed by George H. W. Bush
Preceded by Wilfred Feinberg
Personal details
Born 1944 (age 7172)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater City University of New York, Queens
New York University

Dennis Jacobs (born 1944) is a federal judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He previously served as Chief Judge of the Second Circuit from October 1, 2006 to August 31, 2013.[1]

Personal and Professional

Born and raised in New York City, Jacobs graduated from Forest Hills High School in Forest Hills, Queens and from Queens College of the City University of New York in 1964. He received a Master's Degree in English Literature from New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science in 1965. From 1967 to 1968, Jacobs was a lecturer in the English Department of Queens College. In 1973, he earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he served on the Law Review and was a Pomeroy Scholar. He was in private practice from 1973 with the New York law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, serving as a partner there from 1980 until his judicial appointment.[2]

In 1992, President George H. W. Bush nominated Jacobs to serve on the Second Circuit, succeeding Wilfred Feinberg, and before him Thurgood Marshall. Jacobs was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 29, 1992, and received his commission on October 2, 1992.

Jacobs has been awarded the Learned Hand Award for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence by the Federal Bar Council (2003); the Eugene J. Keogh Award for distinguished public service by New York University (2004); the Outstanding Public Service Award by the New York Intellectual Property Law Association (2009); and the James Madison Award by the Federalist Society. An honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred in 2009 by St. John's University.[3]

In 1997, Jacobs was appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States to the Judicial Resources Committee of the United States Judicial Conference; Judge Jacobs chaired that Committee in the years 1999-2004. The Committee has jurisdiction over personnel policy, compensation and benefits for the employees of the Third Branch, as well as jurisdiction over the need to create new federal judgeships in the various district and appellate courts of the United States. As chair of that Committee, Jacobs directed implementation of the Employee Dispute Resolution program by which discrimination claims are resolved within the Third Branch; and he testified in Congress on the need to revamp benefits for the employees of the Judiciary and on the need for new judgeships to deal with rising case loads.

In 2006, Jacobs delivered a speech entitled "The Secret Life Of Judges" as the 2006 John F. Sonnett Memorial Lecture at Fordham University School of Law.[4] The subsequently published manuscript won a Green Bag Award for exemplary legal writing in the short article category.

Jacobs has also delivered two speeches expressing concern about what he views as a disconnect between the military and the legal elite. The first speech was entitled “The Military and the Law Elite” and was delivered at Cornell Law School in 2009.[5] The second was entitled “Lawyers at War” and was delivered in Washington, D.C., in 2012 as the 10th Annual Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture.[6]

Notable decisions

References

Legal offices
Preceded by
Wilfred Feinberg
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
1992–present
Incumbent
Preceded by
John Walker
Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
2006–2013
Succeeded by
Robert Katzmann
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