Background
Feuerzeig, Henry Louis was born on December 12, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Samuel Alexander Feuerzeig and Esther Fleeger.
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Henry Louis Feuerzeig
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Henry Louis Feuerzeig, American lawyer. Bar: District of Columbia, Virgin Islands, Florida, Maryland. Sigma Delta Chi scholar, 1962; Congressional fellow American Political Science Association, 1964-1965; named Person of Year Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas, 2003, St. Thomas & St. John Chamber of Commerce Community Service award, 2004.
Education
Bachelor of Science, University Wisconsin, 1962; Juris Doctor, George Washington University, 1970.
Career
Reporter various newspapers, Dubuque, Iowa, Chicago, Madison, Wisconsin, Cincinnati and Washington, 1962-1964, 65-67. Associate Sachs, Greenebaum, Frohlich & Tayler, Washington, 1970—1972. Assistant attorney general Virgin Islands Department Law, St. Thomas, 1972-1973, chief civil and administrative law division, 1973-1974, 1st assistant attorney general, 1974.
Partner Feuerzeig & Zebedee, 1974-1976. Judge Territorial Court Virgin Islands, 1977-1987. Delegate, chairman judicial powers and functions committee 4th Virgin Islands Constitutional Convention, 1981.
Partner Dudley, Topper and Feuerzeig, St. Thomas, since 1987. Member supervisory board Virgin Islands Law Enforcement Planning Commission, 1978—1987, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, since 1988. Member Virgin Islands Juvenile Code Revision Task Force, 1978—1983, Virgin Islands Criminal Code Revision Task Force, 1978—1987, Underwriters, Lloyd's United States Virgin Islands Republican, 1989—1999.
Attorney In Fact, since 1999.
Achievements
Membership
Member Montgomery County (Maryland) Democratic State Central Committee, 1970-1972. Member Virgin Islands Industrial Development Commission, 1976. Board directors Environmental Studies Program, St. Thomas, 1977-1980, United Way, 1986-1992.
Board representatives Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas, 1983-1990, 96-2002, co-chair Bicentennial Campaign committee, 1993-1997. Trustee Antilles School, St. Thomas, 1983-1991. Member advisory council Youth Multi-Svc.
Center, 1989-1994; director Community Foundation of Virgin Islands, 1990-2003, president, 1993-1994, emeritus director, since 2003. Fellow American Bar Foundation. Member American Bar Association (lawyers conference judicial performance and conduct committee 1984-1994), District of Columbia Bar Association, Florida Bar Association, VI Bar Association (president 1976), American Law Institute (life, consultant group for principles of family dissolution, 1992-2000, consultant group for restatement of law governing lawyers, 1992-1999), American Judicature Society, Association Trial Lawyers American, International Society Barristers, Order of Coif, Rotary, Harmonic Lodge Northern 356, Sigma Delta Chi, Phi Delta Phi.
Connections
Married Penny Zweigenhaft, April 8, 1967. Children: Paul Lawrence, Darcy Elizabeth Coty.
Awards
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Sigma Delta Chi scholar, 1962. Congressional fellow American Political Science Association, 1964-1965. Named Person of Year Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas, 2003, St. Thomas & St. John Chamber of Commerce Community Service award, 2004.Sigma Delta Chi scholar, 1962. Congressional fellow American Political Science Association, 1964-1965. Named Person of Year Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas, 2003, St. Thomas & St. John Chamber of Commerce Community Service award, 2004.