Marvin John Sternberg (May 2, 1912 – April 28, 1994)[1] was a justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court from 1975 to 1983.[2]
Biography
Sternberg was born 1912 and went to duPont Manual High School[3] before going on to obtain a law degree in 1933 from the Jefferson School of Law.[2] He started practicing law in Jamestown, Kentucky, then served as the Jamestown city attorney[2] and worked in the legal section of the Office of Price Administration.[3]
He married Miss Lillian Marie Rafferty in 1935 and together they had two children.[3]
During World War II he volunteered to serve in all of the sections of the military but was not able to serve due to defective vision.[3]
In 1943 he was appointed as assistant attorney general, a position he held for two years before returning to private practice in Louisville, Kentucky.[2]
In 1953 he ran for the State Senate seat for the 36th district as a Republican but lost to Leon J. Shaikun a Democrat.[4][3]
Sternberg was elected to the circuit court in 1963 on the Republican ticket and again for a second session in 1969 and served until 1974.[2]
He was elected to the newly established supreme court in 1974 and he served from 1975 until January 1983.[2]
Sternberg died April 28, 1994, in Jeffersontown, Kentucky aged 81 and was survived by his wife Lillian and two daughters.[2]
He was a member of the First Lutheran Church, had been a master of the Free and Accepted Masons and a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.[5]