Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan (1870–1938)

US jurist and Supreme Court justice. He was appointed to the US Supreme Court by President Herbert Hoover in 1932. During the F D Roosevelt administration, he upheld the constitutionality of New Deal programmes to counter the depression of 1929 conveyed in such famous cases as Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1936).

Born in New York, USA, Cardozo was educated at Columbia University and became a barrister in 1891. After a brief career as a corporate counsel, he was elected to the New York Supreme Court in 1913 and was appointed associate justice of the court of appeals in 1917, becoming its chief judge in 1926.