Albert Rosenblatt

Albert M. Rosenblatt (born January 17, 1936, New York City) is a retired judge from New York State.

Biography

Education

Rosenblatt attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1957, and Harvard Law School, where he received his law degree in 1960.

Career as District Attorney and Judge

Rosenblatt served two terms as District Attorney of Dutchess County, New York, from 1969 to 1975. He then served as a Dutchess County Court Judge until November 1981, when he was elected to New York Supreme Court. Rosenblatt was New York's Chief Administrative Judge from 1987 to 1989. He was appointed by Governor George Pataki as an Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department. He served on that court from 1989 to 1998.

After Governor George Pataki nominated Rosenblatt to serve on the New York Court of Appeals, the State's highest court, he was confirmed by the Senate on December 17, 1998. Rosenblatt served as an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals until December 2006, when he retired from the bench.

Current positions

Rosenblatt is currently of counsel to McCabe & Mack LLP, in Poughkeepsie, New York. He also teaches part-time at the New York University School of Law, where he holds the title of Judicial Fellow. His son, Robert J. Rosenblatt, is considered to be one of the greatest Theologians of his era. Noted for his famous quote, "In a hundred years from now, is it really going to matter?"

References

• George Marlow, "Albert Martin Rosenblatt" in The Judges of the New York Court of Appeals: A Biographical History (Fordham University Press, 2007).