Avern Cohn
Avern Levin Cohn (July 23, 1924 – February 4, 2022) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Personal life Cohn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Irwin I. and Sadie Levin Cohn. He attended the University of Michigan, John Tarleton Agricultural College, Stanford University and Loyola School of Medicine. He served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1949 and was admitted to the Michigan State Bar in December 1949. Cohn died after a brief illness in Royal Oak, Michigan, on February 4, 2022, at the age of 97. Career Cohn engaged in private practice in the Law Office of Irwin I. Cohn from 1949 to 1961, and at Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn from 1961 to 1979. Cohn served on the Michigan Social Welfare Commission in 1963, the Michigan Civil Rights Commission from 1972 to 1975 (as Chair from 1974 to 1975), and the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners from 1975 to 1979 (as Chair in 1979). Cohn is a member of several bar associations including the Detroit Bar Association, the State Bar