Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum passed away on February 5, 2016, at the age of 86. She was a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia Law School. Appointed in 1986, Judge Cedarbaum served as a United States District Judge in the Southern District of New York for decades, taking senior status in 1998. She clerked for Judge Edward Jordan Dimock and then served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York.
Judge Cedarbaum was a member of the American Law Institute and a Trustee Emerita of Barnard College. In 2015, she was awarded the Columbia Law School Medal for Excellence.
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