The New York City Bar will be CLOSED starting 2:00 PM on Friday, September 1st in observance of Labor Day. We will resume our regular hours at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, September 5th.
Honorary Membership
Loretta Lynch
Former U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
Elected October 4, 2018
Watch or listen to the program here, or read the prepared remarks here.
Jack Greenberg
Professor of Law and Civil Rights Activist
Elected June 2015
“Ode to Jack Greenberg” by Hon. Jack B. Weinstein
Chen Guangcheng
Lawyer and Civil Rights Activist
Elected February 7, 2013
Louise Arbour
President and CEO, International Crisis Group and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Elected May 8, 2012
Thomas Buergenthal
Former Member of the International Court of Justice, 2000-2010
Elected May 16, 2008
Iftikhar Chaudhry
Chief Justice of Pakistan
Elected January 9, 2008 – Presented November 17, 2008
Sargent Shriver
Former Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, 1964-1968
Elected June 10, 2005
Louis Henkin
Columbia University Law Professor
Elected May 11, 2004
P.N. Bhagwati
Former Chief Justice of India and former Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
Elected April 1, 2002
Sir Sydney Kentridge QC
Distinguished Member of the South African and English Bars
Elected May 16, 2001
William H. Rehnquist
Chief Justice of the United States, 1986-2005
Elected April 13, 1999
George J. Mitchell
United States Senate Majority Leader, 1989-1995
Elected December 10, 1998
Richard J. Goldstone
Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Elected October 1, 1996
Mary Robinson
President of Ireland, 1990-1997
Elected May 3, 1995
Judith S. Kaye
Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, 1993-2008
Elected May 3, 1995
Cyrus R. Vance
Secretary of State, 1977-1980
President of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1974-1976
Elected December 16, 1993
Harry A. Blackmun
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1970-1994
Elected November 16, 1993
Marian Wright Edelman
Founding President, Children’s Defense Fund
Elected December 17, 1992
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1956-1990
Elected September 17, 1987
The Right Honourable the Lord Leslie George Scarman P.C., O.B.E.
Former Lord Justice of Appeal
Former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Elected April 21, 1987
Edward Weinfeld
Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York,
1950-1988
Elected March 19, 1985
Potter Stewart
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1958-1981
Elected March 19, 1985
Shirley M. Hufstedler
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1968-1979
Secretary, United States Department of Education, 1979-1981
Elected March 19, 1985
Arthur Chaskalson, S.C.
Director, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1979-1993
President, Constitutional Court, South Africa
Elected March 19, 1985
Henry J. Friendly
Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit,
1971-1973
Elected March 20, 1979
J. Edward Lumbard
Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit,
1959-1971
Elected March 20, 1979
Charles D. Breitel
Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, 1974-1978
Elected March 20, 1979
Thurgood Marshall
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1967-1991
Elected March 7, 1973
Stanley H. Fuld
Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, 1966-1973
Elected November 8, 1972
Warren E. Burger
Chief Justice of the United States, 1969-1986
Elected April 8, 1970
The Right Honourable Lord Denning
Master of the Rolls
Elected March 4, 1964
John Marshall Harlan
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1954-1971
Elected March 4, 1964
Earl Warren
Chief Justice of the United States, 1954-1969
Elected October 29, 1963
The Right Honourable Lord Birkett
Former Lord Justice of Appeal
Elected November 2, 1960
Sir Leslie Knox Munro, K.C., M.G.
Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from New Zealand
Elected December 9, 1958
The Honourable Dag Hammarskjold
Secretary General of the United Nations
Elected May 14, 1957
The Right Honourable the Viscount Kilmur, G.C.V.O.
Former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Elected September 9, 1954
The Right Honourable the Viscount Simonds
Former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain Former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Elected September 2, 1953
Augustus N. Hand
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1927-1953
Elected May 12, 1953
Thomas W. Swan
Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1951-1953
Elected May 12, 1953
Learned Hand
Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1939-1951
Elected February 2, 1949
John T. Loughran
Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, 1945-1953
Elected February 2, 1949
The Right Honourable the Earl Jowitt
Former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Elected September 11, 1947
The Right Honourable the Lord Shawcross, Q.C.
Former Attorney General of Great Britain
Elected November 6, 1946
The Right Honourable Herbert V. Evatt
Former Attorney General and Minister for External Affairs of the Commonwealth of Australia
Elected November 7, 1945
The Right Honourable the Lord Somervell of Harlow, O.B.E.
Former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Elected February 2, 1944
The Right Honourable the Lord Greene, M.C.
Former Master of the Rolls
Former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Elected June 4, 1941
Irving Lehman
Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, 1940-1945
Elected January 3, 1940
Felix Frankfurter
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1939-1962
Elected June 7, 1939
Frederick E. Crane
Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, 1934-1939
Elected February 6, 1935
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States
Elected January 3, 1934
Cuthbert W. Pound
Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, 1932-1934
Elected April 6, 1932
Harlan F. Stone
Chief Justice of the United States, 1941-1946
Elected April 6, 1932
Charles Evans Hughes
Chief Justice of the United States, 1930-1941
Elected April 6, 1932
Field Marshal the Right Honourable Jan Christian Smuts, P.C., O.M.
Former Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs and Defense of the Union of South Africa
Elected January 2, 1930
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1932-1938
Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, 1927-1932
Elected May 2, 1928
William Howard Taft
27th President of the United States
Chief Justice of the United States, 1921-1930
Elected May 2, 1928
Manuel Fourcade
Le Batonnier de l’Ordre des Avocats a la Court de Paris
Elected October 7, 1925
The Right Honourable the Earl of Birkenhead, G.C.S.I.
Former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Elected October 27, 1923
Ferdinand Foch
Marshal of France
Elected December 13, 1921
The Right Honourable the Viscount Simon
G.C.S.I., G.C.V.O.
Former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Elected September 12, 1921
Rene Viviani
Former President of the Council of Ministers of the French Republic
Elected April 19, 1921
His Eminence Desideratus Cardinal Mercier
Archbishop of Malines and Primate of Belgium
Elected October 10, 1919
The Right Honourable the Viscount Finley G.C.M.G., LL.D., D.L.
Former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Elected September 22, 1919
The Most Honourable the Marquess of Reading
P.C., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O.
Former Lord Chief Justice of England
Elected May 14, 1918
