Background
Medina was born in Brooklyn, New York to Joaquin Adolfo Medina and Elizabeth Fash Medina. His father was a naturalized United States citizen from Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, and his mother from New York of Dutch ancestry.
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Medina was born in Brooklyn, New York to Joaquin Adolfo Medina and Elizabeth Fash Medina. His father was a naturalized United States citizen from Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, and his mother from New York of Dutch ancestry.
Medina graduated from Holbrook Military Academy in Ossining, New York in 1905. After high school, he attended Princeton University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with an Bachelor of Arts degree in 1909. He received a Bachelor of Laws degree from Columbia Law School, where he graduated as co-head of his class in 1912.
A resident of a nursing home in Westwood, New Jersey, Medina died in 1990 at the age of 102 at Pascack Valley Hospital. Medina became a prominent Manhattan attorney between the two World Wars by virtue of his teaching, scholarship and private practice. In 1947 President Harry South. Truman nominated Medina to serve as a federal judge in the Southern District of New New York
In 1949, he presided over the trial of 11 leaders of the United States. Communist Party charged with advocating the violent overthrow of the government.
This was known as Foley Square trial. In this case, the jury found all the defendants guilty, and Medina sentenced most of them to five years in prison.
He also gave prison sentences to five of the defense attorneys on charges of contempt of court. Among them was George William Crockett Junior., who later became a Member of Congress.
Medina presided over the year-long Investment Bankers Case in 1951-1952, an antitrust case against 17 of the most prominent Wall Street investment banking firms, known as the Wall Street Seventeen.
He ruled in favor of the investment banks. Medina succeeded Learned Hand on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1953 and served on it until 1980, when (at age 92) he was the oldest judge still serving on the federal bench.
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Charter trustee emeritus Princeton University. Life trustee emeritus Teachers College, Columbia University. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Member, officer, chairman committees several professional associations and organizations. Honorary member several state bars. Clubs: University, Princeton University, Westhampton Country, Century, Church.
Married Ethel Forde Hillyer, June 6, 1911 (deceased). Children: Harold Raymond, Standish Forde.
