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Ralph Winter, Jr.'s Biography

Contact Information

Office

Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse
40 Foley Square
New York, NY 10007

Full Name:

Ralph K. Winter, Jr.

Gender:

Male

Birth Date:

1935

Birth Place:

Waterbury, CT

LLM, Yale University, 1967

LLB, Yale Law School, 1960

BA, Yale University, 1957

No political experience information on file.

Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2000-present

Judge, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, 2003-2010

Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1997-2000

Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1981-1997

Faculty, Yale Law School, 1962-1982

Professor of Law, Yale Law School, 1968-1982

Adjutant Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, District of Columbia, 1972-1981

Confirmed by the United States Senate, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, December 9, 1981

Nominated by President Ronald Reagan, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, November 18, 1981

Consultant, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 1968-1972

Guggenheim Fellow, Washington, District of Columbia, 1971-1972

Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute, Washington, District of Columbia, 1968-1970

Assistant/Associate Professor, Yale Law School, 1964-1968

Research Associate/Lecturer, Yale Law School, 1962-1964

Law Clerk, Honorable Thurgood Marshall, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1961-1962

Law Clerk, Honorable Caleb M. Wright, United States District Court, District of Delaware, 1960-1961

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Chair, Committee to Review Circuit Council Conduct and Disability Orders, 2005-2008

Chair, Executive Committee, United States Judicial Conference, 1999-2000

Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1997-2000

Chair, Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence, 1992-1996

Member, Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, 1987-1992

Awards:

Connecticut Law Review Award, Honorary Doctors of Law from Brooklyn Law School and New York Law School, the Federal Bar Council’s Learned Hand Award for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence, Yale Law School’s Association’s Award of Merit

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