Alan L. Lebowitz (1932-2011) was a Justice of the Brooklyn Supreme Court from 1997 to 2004.
Biography[]
Alan Lebowitz was born and raised in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, New York, and he served in the US Navy in Cuba during the Korean War and graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1960. He worked as a lawyer and was actively involved in Democratic politics before serving as law chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Patry for two decades, befriending President Lyndon B. Johnson, and taking part in several mayoral campaigns. He was elected to the Brooklyn Civil Court in 1985 served as a Brooklyn Supreme Court justice from 1997 to 2004, being assigned to his home borough of Staten Island (he was a resident of New Springville since 1971). He retired in 2004, continued to work as an attorney, helped establish New Dorp High School's Mock Trial program, and died at his winter home in Pembroke Pines, Florida in 2011.