John M. Woolsey Jr.

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John M. Woolsey, Jr. (22 April 1916 – 8 January 2005) was an American jurist.

He graduated Yale College and Yale Law School. He was a Lieutenant in the United States Navy Reserve when he served as a lawyer at the Nuremberg Trials prosecuting Nazi war criminals, for which he received the Order of the White Lion from the Czechoslovakian Government.

He was also a director of the Pioneer Fund and a lifelong conservationist.

His father John M. Woolsey was a noted lawyer best known for his 1933 ruling lifting the ban on Ulysses.

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