Peter Zimroth


Peter Lenard Zimroth is an American attorney whose career includes service as a law school professor, Assistant U.S. Attorney for Manhattan and region, Assistant District Attorney for Manhattan and most recently the court-appointed monitor of the NYPD's policies and practices regarding stop-and-frisk.

Career

A lifelong resident of New York City, Zimroth is the son of Sol and Ruth Zimroth. Raised in Brooklyn, he attended Abraham Lincoln High School, Columbia College and Yale Law School where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.
After graduating from Yale in 1966, he served as a law clerk to Chief Judge David Bazelon of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and then for Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. In 1970, he became a professor at New York University School of Law. The next year, he represented police detective and whistleblower David Durk during his testimony before the Knapp Commission.
Zimroth later served as an assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the chief assistant District Attorney in Manhattan and the corporation counsel of New York City. He has argued three cases before the United States Supreme Court including Payton v. New York and Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris. Zimroth became a partner at Arnold & Porter in 1990.
On August 12, 2013, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin appointed Zimroth to oversee court-ordered reforms to the NYPD’s policies and training related to stop-and-frisk, one of the remedies opinions in the multi-faceted Floyd v. City of New York decision.

Awards

In 2014, the Interfaith Center of New York gave Zimroth the James Parks Morton Interfaith Award.

Personal life

Zimroth has been married to Academy Award-winning actress Estelle Parsons since January 1983. The couple had been together for 10 years when they chose to marry to honour the pending adoption of their child, son Abraham.