Eugene Gressman

Eugene Gressman (April 18, 1917 – January 23, 2010) was an American lawyer and legal scholar whose expertise centered on the Supreme Court of the United States. With Robert L. Stern, he was the co-author of the book Supreme Court Practice, which is considered the preeminent lawyers' guide to the Court's practices and procedures.

Early life and education Gressman was born on April 18, 1917, in Lansing, Michigan. His father was a lawyer and fundamentalist minister, and his mother was a librarian. He enrolled at the University of Michigan 1934, graduating with a A.B. degree in 1938. He received his law degree with distinction from the University of Michigan Law School in 1940. Gressman's experience clerking for Murphy marked the beginning of a long relationship with the Supreme Court, and with many of its justices.

Academic career In 1977, Gressman left private practice to become the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law. He remained on the faculty there until retiring in 1987. In the same year he retired, he received the Frederick B. McCall Award for Teaching Excellence from the University of North Carolina School of Law. He then joined the faculty of the Seton Hall University School of Law as its Richard J. Hughes Distinguished Visiting professor of law, a position he held from 1987 to 1994, after which he returned to the University of North Carolina School of Law as a professor emeritus.

Personal life and death Gressman was married to Nan Gressman, an artist, for sixty years prior to her death in 2004. They had four children together: William, Nancy, Margot, and Eric. Eugene Gressman died on January 23, 2010, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at the age of 92.