Adopting the Gilbert & Sullivan style he enjoys, Dennis G. Jacobs, the new chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, can be described as the very model of a modern major circuit judge.
He strayed from the world of an English literature professor to become a lawyer, yet still holds a soft spot for the prolific Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope and the doggerel of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. “It was not a propitious time to enter a career of college teaching,” said Jacobs of his decision to switch from lit to law after a brief tour as a lecturer in the English department of Queens College at the City University of New York from 1967 to 1969.
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