Douglass Boardman (October 31, 1822 – September 5, 1891) was an American jurist and lawyer who served on the Supreme Court of New York and as Dean of Cornell Law School.
Boardman, the youngest in a family of twelve children, was born in Covert, Seneca County, New York, on October 31, 1822.
He held many other trusts in Ithaca, and in the latter years of his life had peculiarly trying responsibilities as the executor of the large estates of Mr. McGraw and his daughter, Mrs. Fiske.
[1] In 1893, the newly constructed law building at Cornell University, designed by William Henry Miller, was named Boardman Hall in his honor.
[2][3] Boardman's widow and daughter gifted the university 12,415 volumes for the new law library, said to be "one of the most complete in the world" at the time.