Education
Princeton University. Harvard Law School.
Princeton University. Harvard Law School.
Broderick, a native of New York City, received an Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1941 and an Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1948. He was in the United States Army Corps of Engineers from 1942 to 1946. He was in private practice of law in New York City for many years, and worked in the New York City Police Department and as an assistant United States attorney.
He served briefly as United States. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1962, and was the Police commissioner of the City of New York from 1965 to 1966.
He was nominated to the court by Gerald Ford on August 26, 1976, to a seat vacated by Harold R. Tyler, Junior., confirmed by the Senate on September 23, 1976, and received his commission on October 4, 1976. He assumed senior status on December 1, 1988.
He died on March 3, 1995, in Needham, Massachusetts.