Charles S. Haight, Jr.

Charles Sherman Haight Jr. (born 23 September 1930, New York City) is an American lawyer and federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation in the District of Connecticut.

Judge Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a BA and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a LL.B. Haight gained admission to the New York State bar and in the same year joined the Admiralty and Shipping Department of the Department of Justice as a district court trial attorney. Haight got this job on recommendation from his father Charles Sherman Haight Sr., who was heavily involved in shipping affairs. He left the Department of Justice in 1957 to join his father at Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens as an associate. Haight became a partner of the firm on the death of his father in 1968 and continued the practice of law with them until 1976.

On March 2, 1976, President Gerald Ford nominated Haight as a U.S. District Court judge to fill the Southern District of New York seat vacated by Murray I. Gurfein. The Senate confirmed his nomination on March 26, 1976 and, three days later, Haight received his commission. One of his earliest decisions, involved an act aimed at protection of the young. In May 1976, Judge Haight passed a restraining order blocking a law that would disallow people under the age of twenty-one who are not living with a guardian from claiming benefits without first obtaining a potentially lengthy Family Court order.

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