He was a municipal judge in Washington, D.C., and the author of the 1933 Margold Report to promote civil rights for African-Americans through the courts.
Nathan Ross Margold was born in Iași, Romania in 1899, to Wolf Margulies and Rosa Kahan.
[3] Later, during the New Deal era, former students of Frankfurter who joined the U.S. Federal government (including Margold) were collectively referred to as "Happy Hotdogs" invoking a pun on their mentor's name.
[3] Due to Frankfurter's recommendation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) recruited Margold as a special counsel beginning from 1930 through 1933.
The NAACP adapted many of its ideas to advance civil rights for African-Americans through the courts, culminating in 1954's Brown v. Board of Education.
[2][4][3] Margold received recommendations from Frankfurter and Justice Louis Brandeis and was hired as the solicitor for the United States Department of the Interior.
[3] The position was dissolved when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that parts of the National Industrial Recovery Act, which had delegated petroleum code-making authority to the Executive branch, were unconstitutional in Panama Refining Co. v.
[11] Recognizing his loyalty and legal expertise, Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Margold as a judge on the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia in 1942 where he continued to serve until 1945.