Daniel Gutman

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Daniel Gutman was an American lawyer, state senator, state assemblyman, president justice of the municipal court, and law school dean.[1]

Biography

Gutman was born in New York, and attended Boys High School in Brooklyn.[1] He graduated cum laude from Brooklyn Law School in 1922.[1] In the 1930s he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, a special Assistant United States Attorney General, and a Kings County Assistant District Attorney.[1][2]

Gutman was an Assemblyman and then a State Senator from Kings County from 1938 until 1943.[1] That year, he was first elected as a justice of the Municipal Court.[1] In 1954, he was named by Mayor Robert F. Wagner as president justice of the Municipal Court.[1]

He resigned later that year to become New York Governor Averell Harriman's counsel, which he was until 1958.[1][3]

He was a Dean of the New York Law School from 1959 to 1968.[1][4]

He died in September 1993.[1][5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Eric Pace (September 6, 1993). "Daniel Gutman, Municipal Judge And Law School Dean, Dies at 92". New York Times. Retrieved October 19, 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Daniel Gutman, 92, a former dean of New York Law School". Baltimore Sun. September 7, 1993. Retrieved October 19, 2013. 
  3. ↑ "Daniel Gutman". Orlando Sentinel. September 7, 1993. Retrieved October 19, 2013. 
  4. ↑ "Tributes to Dean Daniel Gutman". 13 New York Law Forum. 1967. Retrieved October 19, 2013. 
  5. ↑ "Daniel Gutman". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Retrieved October 19, 2013. 


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