While in school, he worked at the Le Petit Paris Restaurant, which his father owned for 40 years at Broadway and 145th Street, in Manhattan.
He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1949 from Kent State University.
He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1955 to 1959.
[1] On September 11, 1985, President Reagan nominated Tsoucalas to be a Judge of the United States Court of International Trade, to the seat vacated by Judge Nils Boe.
[1] He served in that status until his death on March 22, 2018, from complications of pneumonia at the age of 91.