Robert Holdman
Robert K. Holdman is a former justice for the Westchester County Supreme Court in the 9th Judicial District of New York. He was appointed to this position in 2005. He also served as a New York Court of Claims Judge.[1][2] He resigned at the end of September 2011, claiming that compensation for the Judiciary is insufficient.[3]
Education
Holdman received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Fordham University in 1986 and 1991, respectively.[1]
Career
Holdman began his career in 1991 as Chief Trial Counsel of the Child Abuse & Sex Crimes Bureau of the Bronx County District Attorney's Office. He worked in this position until his judicial appointment in 2005. He also served as a legal adviser for the TV shows 20/20 (1997-2003) and "Bronx County, Crime & Justice: Domestic Crime. In 2001 and 2002, he was a Harvard University School of Law Fellow. He was also a guest lecturer for the Crown Prosecutor of Sweden in 2004. In 2005, he was appointed to the Court of Claims and the Supreme Court.[1]
Resignation letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo
"Due to the failure of politics before, and your commission now, I am forced to leave the bench to properly provide for my wife and our three children, all under the age of five. It breaks my heart they will not know their Dad as a judge. Very simply, if there were merely a cost-of-living increase over the time I sat as a judge, they would."[3]
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