Harrison J. Goldin

Harrison Jacob Goldin was born on February 23, 1936, into a Jewish family in the Bronx, New York City to Harry and Anna Goldin (née Eskolsky), He graduated as Science Valedictorian from the Bronx High School of Science in 1953, and received an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1957, and an LL.B. from Yale Law School, where he was articles editor of the Yale Law Journal and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Goldin was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School. Just prior to his graduation, Goldin turned down several top Wall Street jobs, and instead chose to work during the Kennedy Administration as an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Civil Rights. ==Career==

After working two years with the Justice Department as a civil rights lawyer in the South, Goldin returned to New York and joined the prominent law firm Davis, Polk & Wardwell. In 1981, Goldin's office was investigated after he solicited campaign contributions from a businessman who was seeking to build bus shelters in the city; the investigation closed without charges against him. The firm's notable cases included Drexel Burnham Lambert, Rockefeller Center, Enron and Refco. Goldin Associates was acquired by Teneo in 2020. He was a founding Chair (then Chair Emeritus) of the Council of Institutional Investors and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. Goldin was an adjunct professor of Accounting at the Stern School of Business at New York University and an adjunct professor of law at Cardozo and New York Law Schools. He was also a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School. ==Personal life and death==

In 1966, Goldin married Diana Stern, and they had three children. Goldin died at a hospital in Manhattan on September 16, 2024, at the age of 88. ==Further reading ==