Military Service and Early Career
In the fall of 1968 Abramson began his legal studies at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. His education was interrupted in the summer of 1969 when he was drafted into the United States Army during the Vietnam War. After basic training in Fort Knox, Kentucky he spent the remainder of his military career serving in the Judge Advocates Office at Fort Knox and the Presidio in San Francisco, CA. He left the service in the spring of 1971 and resumed law school at Georgetown where he had been elected to the Georgetown Law Review.
Following a clerkship in Oakland California, and graduation in 1973, Abramson returned to Louisville and took an Associate position at the Greenbaum, Doll, Matthews and Boone law firm. He became active in Jewish and civic circles and soon set his sights on local politics.
Listen to Jerry talk about his millitary years and early law career here.