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Jonathan Lippman
Jonathan Lippman was a chief judge of the State of New York Court of Appeals, the court of last resort in New York. He was appointed to the court by former Governor David Paterson (D) on January 13, 2009.[1] He reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 in May 2015 and retired on December 31, 2015.[2]
Education
Lippman received his B.A. in government and international relations in 1965. He earned his J.D. degree from New York University's School of Law in 1968.[3]
Career
Lippman served as a law clerk for supreme and surrogate's courts, as a principal court attorney and later chief clerk and executive officer for the supreme court (New York County, Civil Term), and as the deputy chief administrator for management of the court system. He was appointed to the New York Court of Claims by Governor Pataki in 1995. Lippman then served as the chief administrative judge from January 1996 to May 2007. He was elected to the New York Supreme Court, Ninth Judicial District in 2005 and also served on the appellate term and the Tenth Judicial District until May 2007. Lippman was then appointed presiding justice of the Appellate Division. He was appointed to the New York Court of Appeals in 2009.[3]
Awards and associations
Awards
- 2006:Cyrus R. Vance Tribute of the Fund for Modern Courts [3]
- 2008:William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence, National Center for State Courts[4]
- 2010: Stanley H. Fuld, New York State Bar Association [5]
- 2011: NY Center for Law and Justice Access to Justice Award[6]
Associations
- Member, Conference of Chief Justices
- Former president, Conference of State Court Administrators
- Former vice-chair, Board of the National Center for State Courts[3]
Noteworthy events
Judge allowance increase
In October 2009, Lippman announced via a webcast available only to the judiciary that he was authorizing a doubling of the annual amount paid to judges for expenses - from $5,000 to $10,000. In 2008, the New York Office of Court Administration paid out approximately $6 million to judges receiving the $5,000 reimbursements. This increase took the total expense stipend outlay to roughly $12 million per year. The Office of Court Administration's total annual budget in 2008 was $2.27 billion.[7][8]
Lippman cited the lack of pay raises for judges in the last ten years as reason why the increase was needed. There were three suits pending before the court of appeals regarding the matter of judicial pay in New York. Two of the suits were brought by individual judges and one was brought by the court system. Lippman recused himself from hearing the cases.[7]
Political ideology
In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal.
Lippman received a campaign finance score of -0.74, indicating a liberal ideological leaning. This was more liberal than the average score of -0.24 that justices received in New York.
The study was based on data from campaign contributions by the judges themselves, the partisan leaning of those who contributed to the judges' campaigns, or, in the absence of elections, the ideology of the appointing body (governor or legislature). This study was not a definitive label of a justice, but an academic summary of various relevant factors.[9]
Recent news
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See also
External links
- State of New York Court of Appeals, "Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman"
- New York Law Journal, "Staged raised of 27% is endorsed for judges," August 29, 2011
- The Village Voice, "Paterson duped again: Shelly Silver gets childhood pal Jonathan Lippman state's top courts job," February 11, 2009
- New York Times, "Top judge sets liberal course for New York," February 17, 2010
- New York Law Journal, "Lippman is pick for chief judge," January 14, 2009
- New York Law Journal, "Chief Justice Lippman's State of the Judiciary," February 15, 2011
- The New York Times, "Dissenting often, state's chief judge establishes a staunchly liberal record," October 9, 2011
Footnotes
- ↑ The New York Times, "Paterson picks chief judge nominee," January 13, 2009
- ↑ New Rochelle Daily Voice, "New Rochelle Bar Association honors chief judge of state's top court," April 28, 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Court of Appeals State of New York, "Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman," accessed February 11, 2015
- ↑ National Center for State Courts, "William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence Previous Recipients," accessed November 10, 2015
- ↑ New York State Bar Association, "Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman Honored With New York State Bar Association's Stanley Fuld Award," January 28, 2010
- ↑ NYCLJ, "Access to Justice Awards," accessed November 10, 2015
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 New York Law Journal, "Citing Lack of Raise, Lippman Boosts Judge Allowance to $10,000," October 15, 2009
- ↑ Times Union, "Is $5,000 stipend boost a back-door pay hike?" October 28, 2009
- ↑ Stanford University, "State Supreme Court Ideology and 'New Style' Judicial Campaigns," October 31, 2012
Federal courts:
Second Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Eastern District of New York, Western District of New York, Northern District of New York, Southern District of New York • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Eastern District of New York, Western District of New York, Northern District of New York, Southern District of New York
State courts:
New York Court of Appeals • New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division • New York Supreme Court • New York County Courts • New York City Courts • New York Town and Village Courts • New York Family Courts • New York Surrogates' Courts • New York City Civil Court • New York City Criminal Courts • New York Court of Claims • New York Problem Solving Courts
State resources:
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