Dudley Bonsal

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Years in office: 1976 - 1995

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Years in office: 1962 - 1976

Education

Bachelor's

Dartmouth College, 1927

Law

Harvard Law School, 1930

Personal

Birthplace

Bedford, NY

Dudley Baldwin Bonsal (1906-1995) was afederal judge on theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Bonsal received a recess appointment from PresidentJohn F. Kennedy on October 5, 1961, to a new seat created by 75 Stat. 80. He was then nominated on January 15, 1962, confirmed by the Senate on March 16, and received his commission onMarch 17th. Bonsal was succeeded in this position byPierre Leval. He assumedsenior status onDecember 6, 1976, and served in that position until his death onJuly 22, 1995.^[1]

Early life and education

• Dartmouth College, A.B., 1927
• Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1930^[1]

Professional career

• Private practice, New York City, 1930-1942
• Chief counsel, U.S. Office of Inter-American Affairs, 1942-1945
• Private practice, New York City, 1945-1961
• Judge, U.S. Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals, 1977-1987
• Judge, U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, 1981-1984^[1]

Judicial nominations and appointments

Southern district of New York

Bonsal received a recess appointment from PresidentJohn F. Kennedy on October 5, 1961, to a new seat created by 75 Stat. 80. He was then nominated on January 15, 1962, confirmed by the Senate on March 16, and received his commission onMarch 17th. Bonsal was succeeded in this position byPierre Leval. He assumedsenior status onDecember 6, 1976, and served in that position until his death onJuly 22, 1995.^[1]

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Active judges	Chief Judge: Laura Swain  •  Kenneth Karas  •  John Koeltl  •  Andrew L. Carter, Jr.  •  Nelson S. Roman  •  Analisa Torres  •  J. Paul Oetken  •  Paul A. Engelmayer  •  Edgardo Ramos  •  Jesse Furman  •  Ronnie Abrams  •  Katherine Failla  •  Vernon Broderick  •  Gregory Howard Woods  •  Mary Kay Vyskocil  •  Lewis Liman  •  Philip Halpern  •  John Cronan (New York)  •  Jennifer Rearden  •  Dale Ho  •  Jessica Clarke  •  Jennifer Rochon  •  Arun Subramanian  •  Margaret Garnett  •  Jeannette Vargas
Senior judges	Victor Marrero  •  Kimba Wood  •  Richard Berman  •  Naomi Buchwald  •  Kevin Castel  •  Denise Cote  •  Paul Crotty  •  George Daniels  •  Paul Gardephe  •  Charles Haight  •  Alvin Hellerstein  •  Lewis Kaplan  •  John Keenan (New York)  •  Colleen McMahon  •  Loretta Preska  •  Jed Rakoff  •  Cathy Seibel  •  Louis Stanton  •  Sidney Stein  •  Vincent L. Briccetti  •  Lorna Schofield  •  Valerie Caproni  •
Magistrate judges	Kevin Fox  •  Debra Freeman  •  Gabriel Gorenstein  •  Paul Davison  •  James L. Cott  •  Sarah Netburn  •  Judith C. McCarthy  •  Barbara Moses  •  Katharine Parker  •  Stewart Aaron  •  Robert Lehrburger  •  Ona Wang  •  Sarah Cave  •  Andrew Krause  •  Jennifer Willis  •  Kim Berg  •
Former Article III judges	Michael Mukasey  •  Morris Lasker  •  Harold Baer  •  Deborah Batts  •  Robert Carter (New York)  •  Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum  •  Denny Chin  •  William Conner  •  Thomas Griesa  •  Richard Holwell  •  Barbara Jones  •  Shirley Kram  •  Peter Leisure  •  Gerard Lynch  •  Lawrence McKenna  •  Richard Owen  •  Robert Patterson (New York)  •  William Pauley  •  Stephen Robinson (New York)  •  Shira Scheindlin  •  John Sprizzo  •  Richard Sullivan (New York)  •  Robert Sweet  •  William Peter Van Ness  •  Samuel Rossiter Betts  •  Samuel Blatchford  •  Sonia Sotomayor  •  William Gardner Choate  •  Pierre Leval  •  Wilfred Feinberg  •  John Walker (New York)  •  Barrington Parker  •  Lawrence Pierce  •  Addison Brown  •  George Bethune Adams  •  George Chandler Holt  •  Charles Merrill Hough  •  Learned Hand  •  Julius Marshuetz Mayer  •  Augustus Noble Hand  •  John Clark Knox  •  Martin Thomas Manton  •  William Bondy  •  Henry Warren Goddard  •  Francis Asbury Winslow  •  Frank Joseph Coleman  •  Thomas Day Thacher  •  Alfred Conkling Coxe, Jr.  •  John Munro Woolsey  •  George Murray Hulbert  •  John William Clancy  •  Vincent Leibell (New York judge)  •  Samuel Mandelbaum  •  Edward Conger  •  Robert Porter Patterson, Sr.  •  Kevin Duffy  •  Gerard Goettel  •  Charles Metzner  •  Arnold Bauman  •  Alexander Bicks  •  Dudley Bonsal  •  Charles Brieant  •  John Bright  •  Vincent Broderick  •  Frederick Bryan  •  Francis Caffey  •  John Cannella  •  Richard Casey  •  John Cashin  •  Kenneth Conboy  •  Irving Cooper  •  Thomas Croake  •  Richard Daronco  •  Archie Dawson  •  Edward Dimock  •  David Edelstein  •  Marvin Frankel  •  Louis Freeh  •  Lee Gagliardi  •  Murray Gurfein  •  William Herlands  •  Irving Kaufman  •  Samuel Kaufman  •  Percy Knapp  •  Richard Levet  •  Mary Lowe  •  Lloyd MacMahon  •  Walter Mansfield  •  John McGohey  •  Edward McLean  •  Harold Medina  •  Constance Motley  •  Gregory Noonan  •  Edmund Palmieri  •  Milton Pollack  •  Simon Rifkind  •  Sylvester Ryan  •  Allen Schwartz  •  Abraham Sofaer  •  Charles Stewart  •  Sidney Sugarman  •  Charles Tenney  •  Harold Tyler  •  Lawrence Walsh (New York judge)  •  Robert Ward  •  Edward Weinfeld  •  Henry Werker  •  Inzer Wyatt  •  John S. Martin (New York)  •  Thomas Francis Murphy (New York)  •  Alison J. Nathan  •  Katherine Forrest  •
Former Chief judges	Kimba Wood  •  Colleen McMahon  •  Loretta Preska  •  Lisa Smith (New York)  •  John Clark Knox  •  William Bondy  •  John William Clancy  •  Charles Brieant  •  David Edelstein  •  Lloyd MacMahon  •  Constance Motley  •  Sylvester Ryan  •  Sidney Sugarman  •

v • e Federal judges nominated byJohn F. Kennedy
1961	Ainsworth •Augelli •Austin •Battisti •Becker •Beeks •Bell •Blumenfeld •Bohanon •Brown •Browning •Bryan Sr. •Clarie •Cox •Craven •Croake •Davis •Dillin •Dooling •Doyle •Dumbauld •Duniway •Dyer •Freedman •Ganey •Garza •Gibson •Gray •Hill •Kaufman •Kiley •Larkins •Larson •Lord •Luongo •MacBride •Machrowicz •Martin •McCree •McRae •Michie •Morgan •Northrop •Parsons •Peck II •Pence •Plummer •Putnam •Ridge •Sheridan •Smith •Stephens, Jr. •Swygert •West •Will •Wilson •Young •Zirpoli
1962	Allgood •Barrow •Beamer •Bell •Body •Bonsal •Brewster •Brown •Butzner •Carr •Cohen •Coolahan •Cooper •Crary •Curtis •Daugherty •Oscar Davis •Elliott •Ellis •Eschbach •Feinberg •Foley •Fox •Gewin •Goldberg •Gray •Green •Hanson •Hays •Hughes •Jones •McLean •McManus •Meredith •Neese •Noel •Oliver •Preyer •Regan •Rosenberg •Rosling •Roth •Seth •Shaw •Smith •Spears •Templar •Tyler •Weigel •White •Winter •Wright •Wyatt
1963	Almond •Cannella •Craig •Decker •Edwards •Fulton •Marovitz •McGowan •Mehaffy •Moynahan •Nealon •Payne •Phillips •Tenney •Thompson • Thornberry