Max Rosenn

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Max Rosenn (February 4, 1910 - February 7, 2006) was a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1970 to 2006. Born in Plains, Pennsylvania, Judge Rosenn graduated from Cornell University in 1929 and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1932.

He was nominated by President Richard Nixon to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on September 3, 1970, to a seat vacated by Judge David Henry Stahl. He was confirmed by the Senate on October 6, 1970. He assumed senior status on January 21, 1981.

Prior to serving on the bench, Judge Rosenn was an Assistant District Attorney in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania from 1941 to 1944, a U.S. Army First Lieutenant from 1944 to 1946 (in the JAG Corps in the Philippines), and the Pennsylvania Secretary of Public Welfare from 1966 to 1967. In 1954, Max Rosenn, Mitchell Jenkins and Henry Greenwald founded the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania law firm of Rosenn, Jenkins & Greenwald[1], which has grown to become a 40 member regional law firm with offices in Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Hazleton and Milford, Pennsylvania.

The United States Courthouse in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania is named after Judge Rosenn [2].

Judge Rosenn died on February 7, 2006 at the age of 96.