Eugene Gressman (April 18, 1917 – January 23, 2010) was an American lawyer and legal scholar whose expertise centered on the Supreme Court of the United States.
[1]: 1 After graduating law school, Gressman worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission for three years until 1943, when he began clerking for Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy.
He continued to clerk for Murphy until the latter's death in 1948, making his the longest clerkship in the history of the Supreme Court.
[1]: 1 [3] Gressman's experience clerking for Murphy marked the beginning of a long relationship with the Supreme Court, and with many of its justices.
In the same year he retired, he received the Frederick B. McCall Award for Teaching Excellence from the University of North Carolina School of Law.