Simon Sobeloff

Simon Sobeloff

Simon Ernest Sobeloff (born December 3, 1894 in Baltimore , Maryland ; †  July 11, 1973 ) was an American lawyer , judge and United States Solicitor General .

biography

After attending school at Baltimore City College , Sobeloff , who came from a Jewish family, studied law at the School of Law at the University of Maryland , graduating in 1915 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). He had already been admitted to the bar in the state of Maryland the year before . After several years as a lawyer, he was assistant to the solicitor of Baltimore from 1919 to 1923 . Subsequently, he was initially again a lawyer and then from 1927 to 1930 Deputy Solicitor ( Deputy Solicitor ) of Baltimore. In 1931 he was appointed federal attorney for the district of Maryland before he was again a lawyer for several years.

Between 1943 and 1947 he was a solicitor from Baltimore and, after a renewed practice as a lawyer, from 1951 to 1952 chairman of the Commission on Administrative Organization of Maryland. He was then appointed Chairman ( Chief Judge ) of the Maryland Court of Appeals .

In February 1954, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him United States Solicitor General. He held this office for a little over two years until July 1956. That year he was appointed as a judge at the 4th Federal Court of Appeals, located in Richmond . Between 1958 and 1964 Sobeloff was chairman of this court.

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