Wilfred Feinberg, a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit who spent more than 50 years on the bench, died Thursday, July 31 of pneumonia. He was 94.

Feinberg was appointed to the Southern District bench in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy and elevated to the Second Circuit in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. From 1980 to 1988, he served as the circuit’s chief judge. He assumed inactive senior status in 2011.