{"id":165389,"date":"2026-10-20T14:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/20\/one-of-americas-greatest-judges-ditched-an-even-more-unique-first-name\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T14:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:56:40","slug":"one-of-americas-greatest-judges-ditched-an-even-more-unique-first-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/20\/one-of-americas-greatest-judges-ditched-an-even-more-unique-first-name\/","title":{"rendered":"One Of America\u2019s Greatest Judges Ditched An Even More Unique First Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cLearned Hand\u201d is one of the most memorable names in American law \u2014 a brilliant federal appeals judge, the most-quoted jurist never to sit on the Supreme Court, owner of a moniker that sounds almost too good to be real. But \u201cLearned\u201d wasn\u2019t his first name at all; it was his middle name, taken from his mother\u2019s side of the family. What was the given first name he was born with \u2014 and later dropped?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: As Professor Orin Kerr is fond of noting, Hand\u2019s given first name is exceedingly appropriate for a lawyer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/one-of-americas-greatest-judges-ditched-an-even-more-unique-first-name\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One Of America\u2019s Greatest Judges Ditched An Even More Unique First Name<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/LearnedHand1910a-234x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"post-single__featured-image-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvia Harvard Law School Library HOLLIS Images Catalog\/Public domain\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cLearned Hand\u201d is one of the most memorable names in American law \u2014 a brilliant federal appeals judge, the most-quoted jurist never to sit on the Supreme Court, owner of a moniker that sounds almost too good to be real. But \u201cLearned\u201d wasn\u2019t his first name at all; it was his middle name, taken from his mother\u2019s side of the family. What was the given first name he was born with \u2014 and later dropped?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: As Professor Orin Kerr is fond of noting, Hand\u2019s given first name is exceedingly appropriate for a lawyer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/one-of-americas-greatest-judges-ditched-an-even-more-unique-first-name\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/one-of-americas-greatest-judges-ditched-an-even-more-unique-first-name\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! \u201cLearned Hand\u201d is one of the most memorable names in American law \u2014 a brilliant federal appeals judge, the most-quoted jurist never to sit on the Supreme Court, owner of a moniker that sounds almost too good to be real. But \u201cLearned\u201d wasn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}