Greenburg, Leonard

From "Biographies of Louisiana Judges" edited by J. Cleveland Fruge' for the Louisiana District Judges Association, publishers.  1971.
Reproduction permitted without written permission provided credit line is retained.  Copyright, 1971, J. Cleveland Fruge'.

Leonard Greenburg was appointed on January 31, 1966 to serve as Judge of Division "A" of the Seventeenth Judicial District, comprising Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes.  He was elected on November 8, 1966 to the same position, and his term ends December, 1972.

Judge Greenburg was born in Schenectady, New York, on September 3, 1911, and his parents are Michael Greenburg and Annie Shapiro Greenburg.

He is married to the former Alice D. Daspit of Baton Rouge, La., and they have two children -- Justin Michael and Douglas Henry Greenburg.

Judge Greenburg attended high school in St. Petersburg, Florida.  He received his A.B. and LL. B. degrees from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.  He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  He has taught French at Tulane University (1935), and was Research Assistant and Special Lecturer in the L.S.U. Law School (1935 - 1940).

Judge Greenburg is a member of the American Bar Association, Louisiana Bar Association, American Red Cross, National Conference of Christians and Jews,
and Y.M.B.A. of Lafourche Parish.

During the war he served as Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1940-1945.

His hobbies are fishing and cooking.