Edward R. Korman ’66 (b. 1942)
Edward R. Korman earned his LL.B. from Brooklyn Law School in 1966 and began his federal career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney before serving as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1978 to 1982, where he worked on major public-corruption matters including the Abscam prosecutions and the conviction of Nassau County political leader Joseph Margiotta. In 1985 he was appointed a U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, later serving as Chief Judge from 2000 to 2007. He has presided over significant criminal cases as well as large-scale civil proceedings, including hearings in the Holocaust-era Swiss bank litigation. Known for a judicial temperament that pairs intellectual rigor with unusual transparency, he reflected in a 2000 New York Times profile: “The notion that judges don't have private views about the matters before them is unrealistic. The question is how to put all of that aside without letting it cloud your thinking or stand in the way.”
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