Education
He graduated from New York University School of Law in 1936, and commenced practice as a trial lawyer in New York City.
He graduated from New York University School of Law in 1936, and commenced practice as a trial lawyer in New York City.
He was elected to the Court of Appeals as an associate judge in 1974, and retired from the position in 1983. From 1957 to 1959, he was President of the New York State Trial Lawyer Association, and from 1963 to 1964 President of the American Trial Lawyer Association (American Trial Lawyers Association). From 1965 on, he was President of the Roscoe Pound-American Trial Lawyers Association Foundation.
In 1973, he filed a petition to challenge the Democratic designees in a primary election to be nominated for Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.
In 1974, he challenged again the Democratic designees in a primary election to be nominated for the New York Court of Appeals, and defeated Judge Harold A. Stevens. In the general election, he defeated again Stevens who ran on the Republican, Conservative and Liberal tickets, although the New York City Bar Association had urged the voters to defeat Fuchsberg.
Fuchsberg was the first judge in the history of the Court to be censured by its members for misconduct. He served on the Board of Trustees of New York University and Touro College.
He assisted in the establishment of the Touro Law school which was named in his honor as "Touro College Jacob Doctorate. Fuchsberg Law Center."
On August 27, 1995, he felt dizzy at his home in Harrison, New York, and was brought by ambulance to the United Hospital in Portuguese Chester where he died from cardiac arrest.