Leo Howard Irwin (August 1, 1917 – September 16, 1995) was a judge of the United States Tax Court.
[2][3] He continued working for the government while becoming a night student at the Georgetown University Law Center in 1940, but left that program in 1942 to serve in the United States Navy, during World War II.
[3] Returning to civilian life in 1946, Irwin worked for the United States Department of the Treasury, and for the Civil Aeronautics Board,[3] and continued as a night student at Georgetown, receiving his LL.B.
[2] In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Irwin to a seat on the United States Tax Court vacated by the resignation of Russell E.
[5] Irwin died in September 1995, at his summer home in Whitehead, North Carolina, and was memorialized in a special session of the Tax Court on December 1, 1995.