He was a law clerk for Judge Gerald McLaughlin of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1960 to 1961.
He was a director and chairman of the executive committee of the County Trust Company in Lyndhurst from 1980 to 1987.
[2] On August 7, 1987, Politan was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey vacated by Judge Herbert Jay Stern.
Politan served in that capacity until his retirement on January 4, 2002.
[2] A longtime resident of West Orange, New Jersey,[1] Politan died on February 20, 2012, in Atlantis, Florida.