Jerome N. Frank

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Jerome New Frank (September 10, 1889 - January 13, 1957) was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Frank attended the University of Chicago as an undergraduate and obtained his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. He worked as a lawyer in private practice in Chicago from 1912 to 1930, and in New York City from 1930 to 1933.

During the New Deal administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frank served as general counsel of the Agricultural Adjudgment Administration from 1933 to 1935, and as a special counsel to the Reconstruction Finance Association in 1935. In 1937, President Roosevelt named Frank as a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Frank served as an SEC commissioner from 1937 to 1941, including as Chairman from 1939 to 1941.

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt named Frank as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Frank was considered a highly competent judge, often taking what was perceived as the more liberal position on civil liberties issues. He served as an active judge on the court until his death in 1957.

Frank's extensive personal and judicial papers are archived at Yale University and are mostly open to researchers.

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