James Madison High School (Brooklyn)
James Madison High School is a public high school in the Midwood section of Brooklyn New York City. It serves students in grades 9 through 12 and is in Region 6 of the New York City Department of Education. Established in 1925, the school has many famous graduates, among them the late United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge Judy Sheindlin, two sitting U.S. senators, Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), former Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN). Teachers William Frauenglass Clarence Taylor Alumni Notable alumni of James Madison High School include: Cal Abrams (1924-1997, class of 1942), Major-League Baseball player. Maury Allen (born Maurice Allen Rosenberg; 1932–2010, class of 1949), sportswriter. Roger Andewelt (1946-2001, class of 1963), attorney, federal judge US Court of Federal Claims Arthur Ashkin (1922–2020, class of 1940), Nobel Prize winner, physics. Julius Ashkin (1920-1982, class of 1936), Manhattan Project physicist. Gary Becker (1930-2014, class of 1948), Nobel Prize winner, economics. Paul Bender, attorney, author, judge, law professor, and former Dean of the Arizona State University College of Law. Mimi Benzell (1918-1970), opera singer. Walter Block (born 1941, class of 1959), Austrian School economist, anarcho-capitalist theoretician, professor of economics Harry Boatswain (1969-2005, class of