Joseph M. McLaughlin

Joseph Michael McLaughlin (born 1933) is a federal appellate judge in the United States. McLaughlin obtained his bachelors and law degrees from Fordham University; he obtained an LL.M. from the New York University School of Law and was awarded the LL.D. degree by Mercy College and Fordham University. After service in the U.S. Army, where he was a Captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and two years in private legal practice, McLaughlin worke... more

Joseph Michael McLaughlin (born 1933) is a federal appellate judge in the United States. McLaughlin obtained his bachelors and law degrees from Fordham University; he obtained an LL.M. from the New York University School of Law and was awarded the LL.D. degree by Mercy College and Fordham University. After service in the U.S. Army, where he was a Captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and two years in private legal practice, McLaughlin worked as a law professor at Fordham University School of Law in Manhattan from 1961 to 1971. In 1971, McLaughlin became Dean of Fordham Law School, a position he held for ten years. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan appointed McLaughlin as a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, headquartered in Brooklyn. After McLaughlin spent nine years as a District Judge, in 1990, President George H.W. Bush promoted him to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. McLaughlin assumed senior status on the... less