Roger Miner
American federal judge (1934-2012)
Roger Jeffrey Miner (April 14, 1934 – February 18, 2012) was an American lawyer and judge. He was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1985 until his death, and was previously a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York from 1981 to 1985. Before his time as a federal judge, he was a New York Supreme Court justice from 1976 to 1981, and the district attorney of Columbia County, New York, from 1968 to 1975.
Education and career
Miner was born on April 14, 1934, in Hudson, New York. He received a Bachelor of Laws from New York Law School in 1956. He received a Bachelor of Science from the State University of New York at Albany in 1977. He served as a Captain in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1956 to 1959. He was in private practice of law in Hudson from 1959 to 1975. He was corporation counsel for the City of Hudson, New York from 1961 to 1964. He was an assistant district attorney of Columbia County, New York in 1964.
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