A naming ceremony was held Monday for the Robert H. Jackson U.S. Courthouse in downtown Buffalo. Jackson, who practiced for many years in western New York, served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
Gathered to honor him were, from left, John Q. Barrett, a biographer who teaches at St. John’s University School of Law; Thomas King, project manager from the General Services Administration; Jackson granddaughter Julia E. Craighill, an architect; Second Circuit executive Karen Greve Milton; Western District Chief Judge William M. Skretny; Second Circuit Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann; District Judges Richard J. Arcara and John T. Curtin; Donn Schubert, assistant property manager; Jackson grandson, Thomas A. Loftus, III, an attorney; and Gregory L. Peterson, partner at Phillips Lytle LLP and cofounder of the Robert H. Jackson Center.
