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Alexander Holtzoff

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Alexander Holtzoff
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Prior offices:
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Years in office: 1967 - 1969
Years in office: 1945 - 1967
Personal
Birthplace
New York, NY

Alexander Holtzoff (1886-1969) was afederal judge on theUnited States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Holtzoff was nominated by PresidentHarry Truman on September 12, 1945, to a seat vacated byBolitha Laws; he was confirmed by the Senate on September 24, 1945, and received commission onSeptember 28. He assumedsenior status onDecember 31, 1967, and served in that capacity until his death onSeptember 6, 1969.[1]

Education

  • Columbia University, A.B., 1908
  • Columbia University, M.A., 1909
  • Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1911[1]

Professional career

  • Private practice, New York, 1911-1924
  • U.S. Army Private, 1918
  • Special assistant, U.S. Attorney General's Office, Washington, DC, 1924-1945
  • Executive assistant, U.S. Attorney General's Office, Washington, DC, 1945[1]

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Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the District of Columbia
Active judges

Chief Judge: James E. BoasbergChief Judge: Rudolph Contreras  •  Christopher Reid Cooper  •  Tanya S. Chutkan  •  Randolph D. Moss  •  Amit Priyavadan Mehta  •  Dabney Friedrich  •  Timothy J. Kelly (District of Columbia)  •  Trevor McFadden  •  Carl Nichols  •  Katherine E. Oler  •  Jia Cobb  •  Loren AliKhan  •  Ana Reyes  •  Judith Pipe  •  Amir Ali  •  Sparkle Sooknanan

Senior judges

Barbara Rothstein  •  Royce Lamberth  •  Thomas Hogan  •  Emmet Sullivan  •  Henry Kennedy  •  Richard Roberts (District of Columbia)  •  Ellen Huvelle  •  Rosemary Collyer  •  Reggie Walton  •  John Bates  •  Richard Leon  •  Paul Friedman (District of Columbia)  •  Joyce Green (District of Columbia)  •  Amy B. Jackson  •  Beryl A. Howell  •  

Magistrate judgesG. Michael Harvey  •  Zia Faruqui  •  
Former Article III judges

Michael Boudin  •  Thomas Anderson (District of Columbia)  •  William Matthew Merrick  •  David Kellogg Cartter  •  George Purnell Fisher  •  Abram Baldwin Olin  •  Andrew Wylie  •  David Campbell Humphreys  •  Arthur MacArthur  •  Walter Smith Cox  •  Alexander Burton Hagner  •  Charles Pinckney James  •  Edward Franklin Bingham  •  Martin Montgomery  •  Andrew Coyle Bradley  •  Charles Cleaves Cole  •  Louis Emory McComas  •  Thomas H. Anderson  •  Job Barnard  •  Harry Clabaugh  •  Ashley Mulgrave Gould  •  Jeter Connelly Pritchard  •  Wendell Phillips Stafford  •  Daniel Thew Wright (District of Columbia)  •  Thomas Jennings Bailey  •  James Harry Covington  •  William Hitz  •  Walter Irving McCoy  •  Frederick Lincoln Siddons  •  Adolph Hoehling  •  Peyton Gordon  •  Louis Oberdorfer  •  Gladys Kessler  •  James Robertson (District of Columbia)  •  Ricardo Urbina  •  Colleen Kollar-Kotelly  •  Harold Leventhal  •  Alfred Adams Wheat  •  Jesse Corcoran Adkins  •  Joseph Winston Cox  •  Oscar Raymond Luhring  •  Fred Dickinson Letts  •  Daniel William O'Donoghue  •  James McPherson Proctor (Federal judge)  •  Bolitha Laws  •  Thomas Goldsborough  •  James W. Morris (Federal judge)  •  Thomas Penfield Jackson  •  Walter Bastian  •  Edward Tamm  •  William Bryant  •  Howard Corcoran  •  Edward Curran  •  Edward Eicher  •  Thomas Flannery  •  Oliver Gasch  •  Gerhard Gesell  •  June Green  •  Harold Greene  •  Stanley Harris  •  George Hart  •  Norma Johnson  •  Alexander Holtzoff  •  William Jones (District of Columbia)  •  Richmond Keech  •  James Kirkland  •  Burnita Matthews  •  Joseph McGarraghy  •  Matthew McGuire  •  Charles McLaughlin  •  John Penn  •  David Pine  •  John Pratt  •  George Revercomb  •  Charles Richey  •  Aubrey Robinson  •  Spottswood Robinson  •  Henry Schweinhaut  •  John Sirica  •  John Lewis Smith (United States District Court for the District of Columbia judge)  •  Stanley Sporkin  •  Joseph Waddy  •  Leonard Walsh  •  Luther Youngdahl  •  Barrington Daniels Parker, Sr.  •  Florence Pan  •  Robert Leon Wilkins  •  Ketanji Brown Jackson  •  

Former Chief judges

David Kellogg Cartter  •  Edward Franklin Bingham  •  Harry Clabaugh  •  James Harry Covington  •  Walter Irving McCoy  •  Royce Lamberth  •  Thomas Hogan  •  Alfred Adams Wheat  •  Fred Dickinson Letts  •  Bolitha Laws  •  William Bryant  •  Edward Curran  •  Edward Eicher  •  George Hart  •  Norma Johnson  •  William Jones (District of Columbia)  •  Richmond Keech  •  Matthew McGuire  •  John Penn  •  David Pine  •  Aubrey Robinson  •  John Sirica  •  John Lewis Smith (United States District Court for the District of Columbia judge)  •  Beryl A. Howell  •  


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Federal judges nominated byHarry Truman
1945

Burton •Clark •Donovan •Gilliam •Gourley •Holtzoff •Koscinski •Madden •Mathes •Mellott •S. Miller •W. Miller •Mollison •O'Connell •Orr •Prettyman •Rice

1946

Curran •Driver •Follmer •Harris •Kalodner •Kampf •Keech •Levin •Lynne •McGranery •Murphy •Rodney •Scarlett •Shelbourne •Speakman •Starr •Vinson •Weinberger

1947

Bryan, Sr. •Christenberry •Clifford •Collet •Dooley •Harper •Howell •Johnson •Jones •Lemmon •Medina •Rayfiel •Ryan •

Thomason
1948

Harper •Henderson •Johnson •Kaufman •Proctor •Rao •Stephens •Tamm

1949

Allred •Andrews •Bazelon •Borah •Burns •Carter •Clark •Clary •Conger •Connally •Duffy •Erskine •Fahy •Finnegan •Foley •Ford •Gibson •Grim •Hastie •Hatch •Hill •Hooper •Kaufman •Kirkland •Lindley •Matthews •McCarthy •McGohey •McLaughlin •Minton •Murray •Noonan •Pickett •Platt •Pope •Ritter •Russell •Solomon •Sugarman •Swaim •Switzer •Taylor •Tehan •Thornton •Warlick •Washington •Westover •Wright

1950

Bastian •Byrne, Sr. •Carter •Knous •Marsh •Murphy •Simpson •Staley •Steckler •Strum •Wallace •Weinfeld •Whitehurst •Worley

1951

Dimock •Edelstein •Hartigan •Hartshorne •Leahy •Lindberg •McNamee •Medina •Modarelli •Murphy •Perry •Rives •Sheehy •Sloan •Stewart •Thomas •Tolin •Youngdahl

1952

Cole •Friedman •Williams •