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List of Brooklyn Law School alumni

The following list shows notable Brooklyn Law School alumni:

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  • Harold Birns, 1938, Associate Justice of the NY Appellate Division, First Department
  • Bernard Botein, 1924, Presiding Justice of the NY State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, and President of the New York City Bar Association.
  • Dorothy Chin Brandt, 1974, first descendant of a Chinese immigrant to win elective office in New York State, also the state’s first female jurist of Asian heritage, served in Civil Court in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens; in Criminal Court in Queens; and, from 1991 to 1992 and 2001 to 2016, as an acting New York State Supreme Court justice.
  • Jeanette Goodman Brill, 1908, first woman Magistrate in Brooklyn
  • John Carro, 1956, Associate Justice of the NY Appellate Division, First Department, first Puerto Rican to be designated an Appellate Court Justice, and founding partner of the largest Latino-owned law firm in New York.
  • Noach Dear, 1991, New York Supreme Court judge
  • Steven W. Fisher, 1972, Associate Justice of the NY Appellate Division, Second Department
  • Rachel Freier, 2005, Civil Court judge for the Kings County 5th judicial district in NY State, first Hasidic Jewish woman to be elected as a civil court judge in NY State, and first Hasidic woman to serve in public office in US history.
  • Julius J. Gans, 1919, member of the New York State Assembly and New York Supreme Court Justice
  • E. Leo Milonas, 1960, partner of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP; former Associate Justice, Associate Justice of the NY Appellate Division, First Department, and Chief Administrative Judge of the State of NY.
  • Frank D. O'Connor, 1934, Judge of the Appellate Division of the NY State Supreme Court, Queens District Attorney, President of the New York City Council.
  • Ann Pfau, 1984, Chief Administrative Judge of the NY State Unified Court System.
  • Raja Rajeswari, 1998, Judge of the Criminal Court of NYC, first India-born woman to be appointed a judge in New York City
  • Rosalyn Richter, 1979, Associate Justice of the NY Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Department
  • E. Ivan Rubenstein, 1917, Justice of the New York Supreme Court
  • Irma Vidal Santaella, 1961, 1967, justice of the NY State Supreme Court, first Puerto Rican woman admitted to the NY State Bar and first Puerto Rican woman to be elected to the NY State Supreme Court.
  • Benjamin F. Schreiber, 1905, justice of the New York Supreme Court
  • Brian P. Stern, 1991, associate justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court
  • William C. Thompson, 1954, justice of the NY State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department; founding member of nation's first community development corporation, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
  • Peter Tom, 1975, first Asian-American appellate justice in NY State
  • Edwin Torres, 1957, NY State Supreme Court justice and best-selling author of crime novels.
  • Moses M. Weinstein, 1934, justice of the NY Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, and Acting Speaker of the NY State Assembly.

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