Robert Palmer Anderson

• Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  Judge

  1964 – 1978 · 14 yrsAppointed by Lyndon B. Johnson

• District Court, D. Connecticut

  Judge

  1954 – 1964 · 10 yrsAppointed by Dwight Eisenhower

Career

• U.S. Coast Guard Reserve captain

  1955 – 1957 · 2 yrs

• Judge

  Connecticut Superior Court

  1953 – 1954 · 1 yr

• Judicial council

  State of Connecticut

  1952 – 1953 · 1 yr

• State's attorney

  1947 – 1953 · 6 yrs

• State senator

  Connecticut

  1947 – 1949 · 2 yrs

• U.S. Coast Guard Reserve

  1942 – 1945 · 3 yrs

• Commissioner

  U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut

  1936 – present · 90 yrs

• Public defender

  1936 – 1947 · 11 yrs

• Member

  Connecticut State Bar Examining Committee

  1936 – 1954 · 18 yrs

• Private practice

  1929 – 1953 · 24 yrs

Education