Dates of Service: 1934-1936
\nBorn September 8, 1874, in Greigsville, NY
\nDied March 11, 1946<\/p>\n
Federal Judicial Service:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Nominated by Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 9, 1934, to a seat vacated by Simon L. Adler. Confirmed by the Senate on June 14, 1934, and received commission on June 18, 1934. Service terminated on December 31, 1936, due to resignation.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Education:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n University of Rochester, A.B., 1898<\/span> Professional Career:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Private Practice, Rochester, New York, 1901-1913<\/span> Noteworthy Cases and Other Information\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n (written by Hon. John T. Curtin)\u00b9<\/span><\/p>\n Although Judge Rippey had a distinguished career, he served in the Western District for only two years before leaving the federal bench to become an Associate Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals. He remained there until 1944, when he retired at age 70.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Dates of Service: 1934-1936 Born September 8, 1874, in Greigsville, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district-judges","category-judges","category-past-judges"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3730"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4394,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions\/4394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>University of Rochester, A.M., 1899<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Inheritance Tax Appraiser, Monroe County, 1913-1915<\/span>
\n<\/span>Inheritance Tax Attorney, Monroe County, 1922-1927<\/span>
\n<\/span>Justice, Supreme Court of the State of New York, Seventh Judicial District, 1927<\/span>
\n<\/span>Liquidation Attorney, New York State Superintendent of Banks and U.S. Comptroller, 1930-1934<\/span>
\n<\/span>Associate Judge, New York State Court of Appeals, 1937-1946<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00b9Judge Curtin\u2019s text is taken with modest modifications from his history of the Western District delivered on April 22, 1986, as part of the Second Circuit\u2019s History Lectures. As Judge Curtin noted, t<\/span><\/span>he bulk of the information concerning Judge\u00a0<\/span>Rippey<\/span>\u00a0comes from newspaper\u00a0<\/span>articles, including an\u00a0<\/span>obituary:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Rippey Rites Scheduled on Saturday<\/span><\/span><\/a>, Democrat and Chronicle, Mar. 13, 1946, at 15.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"