Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum
Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum (born September 16, 1929) is a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Cedarbaum has been involved in many other prominent cases during her tenure on the federal bench, including the trial of Martha Stewart.
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Federal judicial service
Cedarbaum was nominated by Ronald Reagan on February 3, 1986, to a seat vacated by Charles E. Stewart. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 3, 1986, and received her commission on March 4, 1986. Judge Cedarbaum assumed senior status on March 31, 1998.
Cedarbaum oversaw the case against the would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Tuesday, October 5, 2010.[1]
Education
Born into a middle-class Jewish family, Cedarbaum grew up in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.[2] Judge Cedarbaum attended Barnard College (B.A. 1950), and then Columbia Law School (LL.B. 1953).
Professional career
- Law clerk, judge Edward J. Dimock, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1953–1954
- Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1954–1957
- Attorney, Court of Claims Section, Office of the Deputy U.S. Attorney General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., 1958–1959
- Part-time legal consultant, New York City, 1959–1962
- First assistant counsel, New York State Moreland Commission on the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, 1963–1964
- Associate counsel, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 1965–1979
- Acting village justice, Village of Scarsdale, New York, 1978–1982
- Village justice, Village of Scarsdale, New York, 1982–1986
- Private practice, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York City, 1979–1986
Personal
Cedarbaum was married on August 25, 1957[3] to the late Bernard Cedarbaum, long-time partner at Carter Ledyard & Milburn,[4] and has two children, Daniel, a lawyer and leader of Reconstructionist Judaism in Chicago,[5] and Jonathan, a lawyer in D.C. who clerked for the now-retired Associate Justice David Souter of the Supreme Court.[6]
References
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/nyregion/06shahzad.html
- ↑ http://www.moma.org/docs/learn/archives/transcript_cedarbaum.pdf
- ↑ http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB0714FB385A177B93C4AB1783D85F438585F9
- ↑ Paid Notice - Deaths CEDARBAUM, BERNARD - Paid Death Notice - NYTimes.com. New York Times (2006-02-07). Retrieved on 2013-10-23.
- ↑ http://archive.jewishrecon.org/welcome-dan-cedarbaum
- ↑ Jonathan G. Cedarbaum. WilmerHale. Retrieved on 2013-10-23.
Sources
- 'Retirement' Missing From Vocabulary Of NY Judges
- The Federal Judge With Terror On Her Docket
- Judge Rules City Owns The Name Tavern On The Green
- Project Continuum: In Chambers with Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum '50
- Wall Street Journal article discussing Judge Cedarbaum in the context of Judge Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination
- Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
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| Preceded by | Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York 1986–1998 |
Succeeded by Naomi Reice Buchwald |
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
- Living people
- 1929 births
- Columbia Law School alumni
- Barnard College alumni
- New York state court judges
- American women judges
- Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- United States district court judges appointed by Ronald Reagan
- American Jews
