Maria L. Marcus | |
Birth Name: | Maria Eleanor Erica Lenhoff |
Birth Date: | 23 June 1933 |
Birth Place: | Vienna, Austria |
Nationality: | American |
Alma Mater: | Oberlin College Yale Law School |
Maria L. Marcus (June 23, 1933 – April 27, 2022) was an American lawyer who served as a Joseph M. McLaughlin Professor of Law at Fordham University.[1]
Marcus was born as Maria Eleanor Erica Lenhoff on 23 June 1933 in Vienna, Austria in a Jewish family.[2] She received a bachelor's degree in English from Oberlin College in 1954 and a law degree from Yale Law School in 1957.[2] She was married to Norman Marcus.[2]
Between 1961 and 1967, Marcus was an associate counsel for the NAACP.[3] From 1967 to 1978, she was an Assistant Attorney General.[2] In 1976, she became the chief of the office's litigation bureau where she worked until 1978.[2]
In 1978, she joined Fordham University as a professor and became the second woman to attain tenured full professor status.[2]
In 2011, she was retired as a professor.[3]