Background
Marvin Earl Frankel was born on July 26, 1920 in New York, New York, United States. Son of Charles and Anne Frankel.
Marvin Earl Frankel was born on July 26, 1920 in New York, New York, United States. Son of Charles and Anne Frankel.
Frankel was in the United States Army during World War II, from 1942 to 1946, but received a B.A. from Queens College in 1943. His service was followed by a LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1948.
Marvin served as the editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review, and was thereafter an Associate in law at Columbia Law School from 1948 to 1949. He was an assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States from 1949 to 1956, thereafter entering private practice in New York City from 1956 to 1962. He was a Professor at Columbia Law School from 1962 to 1965. On October 21, 1965 Frankel was appointed as the U.S. District Judge in New York. Frankel resigned from the bench on September 30, 1978, returning to private practice in New York. He worked at the law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP from 1983 until his death in 2002. Frankel died on March 3, 2002 in New York, United States.
He was a member of the Association for the City of New York, New York State and American Bar Associations.
Frankel married Betty Streich on June 20, 1945, but the couple divorced in 1965. Then he married Alice Kross on August 22, 1965. He had a child from the first marriage (Eleanor) and a child from the second marriage (Mara). He also had 2 stepchildren: David Schorr, Ellen Schorr.