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 The presentation of the portrait of U.S. District Court Senior Judge Avern Cohn, Eastern District of Michigan, was conducted Thursday, May 19, at the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse in Detroit.  

Cohn was appointed to the U.S. District Court by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.  

He was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan in December, 1949.  Cohn engaged in private practice in the Law Office of Irwin I. Cohn from 1949 to 1961 and at Honigman, Miller, Schwartz, and Cohn from 1961 to 1979.  

He is a member of several bar associations including the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association; State Bar of Michigan; Federal Circuit Bar Association; Federal Bar Association; American Bar Association; chairperson, Special Committee on Court Congestion, State Bar of Michigan, 1977-1978; Representative Assembly, State Bar of Michigan, 1973-1979; past trustee, Detroit Bar Association Foundation; member, American Law Institute; and director, American Judicature Society.

Photos by John Meiu

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