Miriam G. Cedarbaum
| Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
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In office March 31, 1998 – February 5, 2016 |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
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In office March 4, 1986 – March 31, 1998 |
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| Appointed by | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Charles E. Stewart Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Naomi Reice Buchwald |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Miriam Goldman September 16, 1929 Crown Heights, New York |
| Died |
February 5, 2016 (aged 86) Manhattan, New York |
| Residence | Manhattan, New York |
| Education |
Barnard College (B.A.) Columbia Law School (LL.B.) |
Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum (September 16, 1929 – February 5, 2016) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Born into a Jewish family, Cedarbaum grew up in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Cedarbaum received her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree from Barnard College in 1950, and then her Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Columbia Law School in 1953.
She began her career as a law clerk for Judge Edward Jordan Dimock of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1953 to 1954. She served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1954 to 1957. She served as an attorney of the Court of Claims Section of the Office of the Deputy United States Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. from 1958 to 1959. She then served as a part-time legal consultant for New York City from 1959 to 1962. She served as first assistant counsel of the New York State Moreland Commission on the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law from 1963 to 1964. She was associate counsel of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City from 1965 to 1979. She was Acting Village Justice of the Village of Scarsdale, New York from 1978 to 1982 and then was Village Justice of the same municipality from 1982 to 1986. She was in private practice with the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City from 1979 to 1986.
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