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Thomas Collier Platt Jr.

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York · 1974

Thomas Collier Platt Jr., Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Education

  • Yale UniversityB.A., 1947
  • Yale Law SchoolLL.B., 1950

Career

U.S. Naval Reserve, 1943-1946; Private practice, New York City, 1950-1953, 1956-1974; Assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of New York, 1953-1956; Village attorney, Laurel Hollow, New York, 1958-1974; Acting village police justice, Lloyd Harbor, New York, 1958-1963

Biography

Thomas Collier Platt Jr. (May 29, 1925 – March 4, 2017) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 1974 to 2017 and its chief judge from 1988 to 1995.

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