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Abraham Fortas (June 19, 1910 – April 5, 1982) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Fortas graduated from Rhodes College and Yale Law School.
May 2, 2024 · Hard-working and brilliant, Fortas won scholarships to Southwestern College and Yale Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. He was a protégé of Professor William O. Douglas, who became Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission and subsequently was appointed to the Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Abe Fortas was a lawyer and associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1965–69). Nominated to replace Earl Warren as chief justice by Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968, Fortas became the first nominee for that post since 1795 to fail to win Senate approval.
On this day in 1969, Abe Fortas, denying he had done anything wrong, resigned from the Supreme Court to return to private law practice.
Feb 6, 2018 · What can we learn today from Justice Fortas’s fate? A lot. Abe Fortas’s career as a lawyer could not have had a more promising start as he graduated second in his class from Yale Law School and was promptly hired by Yale to teach. He worked as a lawyer throughout the expanding administrative state.
Apr 5, 2013 · Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas died on April 5, 1982, at the age of 71. Fortas was the fifth Jew to serve on the court, and the only one of them to resign in scandal.
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