John Paul Frank (November 10, 1917 – September 7, 2002) was an American lawyer and scholar involved in landmark civil rights, school desegregation, and criminal procedure cases before the United States Supreme Court.
[citation needed] In 1946, he joined the faculty of the Indiana University, Bloomington School of Law.
[1] Frank helped then-Chief Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Thurgood Marshall, formulate strategy in the school desegregation case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).
[4] Frank argued the case of Miranda v. Arizona (1966), which required that police inform criminal suspects of their rights.
[8] In 1940, he married Lorraine Weiss (June 7, 1923 – December 22, 2005), a graduate of Vassar College, and they had five children.