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American judge
Herbert Funk Goodrich
(July 29, 1889 ? June 25, 1962) was a
United States circuit judge
of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
. He was also Dean of the
University of Pennsylvania Law School
.
Education and career
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Born on July 29, 1889, in
Anoka
,
Minnesota
, Goodrich received an
Artium Baccalaureus
degree in 1911 from
Carleton College
and a
Bachelor of Laws
in 1914 from
Harvard Law School
. He was a faculty member at the
State University of Iowa
(now the
University of Iowa
) from 1914 to 1922, as an instructor in law from 1914 to 1915, an Assistant Professor from 1915 to 1919, Professor from 1919 to 1921 and as Acting Dean of the
State University of Iowa College of Law
(now the
University of Iowa College of Law
) from 1921 to 1922. He was a Professor of Law at the
University of Michigan
from 1922 to 1929.
He was a faculty member at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School
from 1929 to 1948. He served as Dean and Professor of Law from 1929 to 1940, Vice President from 1931 to 1940, and as a lecturer in law from 1940 to 1948.
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Goodrich was elected to the
American Philosophical Society
in 1937 and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
in 1939.
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Federal judicial service
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Goodrich was nominated by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
on March 5, 1940, to a seat on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
vacated by Judge
Francis Biddle
. He was confirmed by the
United States Senate
on May 7, 1940, and received his commission on May 10, 1940. His service terminated on June 25, 1962, due to his death.
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Other service
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Goodrich served as the Director of the
American Law Institute
and chaired the drafting committee for the original version of the
Uniform Commercial Code
. He would remain Director of the institute until his death.
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