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Town of Clarkstown

History & Judges Since 1786

Judges Who Have Served the Court During The Last 223 Years of The Town’s History 1786-2009

Judges Since 1786
NameTerm(s)Years of Service
BENJAMIN COE(1786-90 & 1810)6 years
THOMAS BLAUVELT(1786 – 1795)10 years
JOHN SUFFERN(1789)1 year
JAMES CUPPER(1789)1 year
THOMAS CUPPER(1789)1 year
WALTER SMITH(1790 – 1791 & 1794 – 1798)7 years
JOHN CULEMAN(1792 – 1795)4 years
JOHN BLAUVELT(1795 – 1809)15 years
JOHN LYDECKER(1801)1 year
JAMES STANDHILL(1802 – 1804)3 years
PETER SMITH(1804 – 1809)
(1811 – 1812)
(1815 – 1818)
(1823 – 1825)
15 years
JAMES VANDERBILT(1805 – 1806 & 1810)3 years
RESULVERT STEPHANS(1807-1809 & 1811-1820)12 years
JAMES STEPHANS(1817 – 1819 & 1821)4 years
EBENEZER WOOD(1818 – 1821)4 years
PETER STEPHENS(1820)1 year
ALBERT LYDECKER(1821 – 1830 – 1832)4 years
WILLIAM STUART(1821)1 year
ABRAHAM STEPHENS(1822 – 1835 & 1837)14 years
THOMAS HOWARD(1822 – 1827)6 years
HENRY HOUSE(1828 – 1829)2 years
JACOB BLAUVELT(1828 – 1838)*11 years
JOHN STAGG(1828 – 1836)9 years
JOHN BLANCH(1834 – 1838)*
(1858 – 1861 & 1863)
10 years
PETER STEPHENS(1838 – * & 1858-1867)11 YEARS
CHARLES FULLWOOD(1838 – ?)* 
FABER WOOD(1857 – 1858)2 years
JABEZ WOOD(1858 – 1865)8 years
AUSTIN FITCH(1859 – 1862)5 years
ISAAC TALLMAN(1862 – 1872)11 years
HARVEY SMITH(1862 – 1880)
(1884 – 1886)
22 years
FREDERICK WHILES(1865 – 1874)
(1881 – 1895)
25 years
DANIEL CLARK(1867 – 1879)13 years
ANDREW CORSA(1872 – 1873)2 years
ISAAC STRERND(1872)1 year
HARRY HAIGHT(1873 – 1880)8 years
ABRAHAM DICKEY(1873 – 1876)4 years
CORTLAND SPRAGUE(1876 – 1879)4 years
WILLIAM CALL(1876)1 year
FRANK DEMAREST(1878 – 1893)6 years
JOHN RILEY(1880 – 1884)4 years
TUNIS BLAUVELT(1880 – 1885)5 years
DAVID BENSON(1883 – 1884)2 years
JOSEPH KELLY(1884 – 1888)5 years
FRANCIS TALLMAN(1885)1 year
WILLIAM SCHEK(1885 – 1894)
(1898 – 1901)
(1905 – 1917)
27 years
EDWARD CULE(1885)1 year
JOHN POMEROY(1886)1 year
MARSH CROPSEY(1887)1 year
GEORGE REIMER(1887 – 1900)
(1902 – 1919)
32 years
THOMAS LAWRENCE(1888 – 1889)2 years
GEORGE WYRE(1889 – 1898)10 years
CHARLES FISCHER(1893 – 1894)2 years
GEORGE HAERLE(1894 – 1919)26 years
JACOB VANDERBILT(1895 – 1899)5 years
W.WYARD(1896 & 1898 – 1899)3 years
M. CHRISTIE(1897)1 year
THEODORE DENOYELLES(1899 – 1906)8 years
HARRY FISCHER(1902 – 1905)4 years
JOHN SCHMERSAHL(1907 – 1925)
(1927 – 1931)
24 years
F. GUSTAVE GRUMHULD(1917 – 1918)
(1921 – 1925)
7 years
RAYMOND BLAUVELT(1917 – 1919)3 years
GEORGE LINK JR.(1919 – 1931)13 years
WARD CULLINS(1919 – 1921)3 years
WILLIAM McVICKAR(1919 – 1921)3 years
ROBERT LIEBERT(1922 – 1924)3 years
WILLIAM HAMBLIN(1923 – 1927)
(1929 – 1933)
10 years
E.H. JULIFFE(1925 – 1929)5 years
RAYMOND FISHER(1925 – 1937)13 years
JOHN HILL(1931 – 1933)3 years
SAMUEL GARRISON(1931 – Died 1940)10 years
STEVEN FLAMIK(1933 – 1937)5 years
FRED R. ENGELS(1938 – 1949)12 years
CHARLES J. BLAUVELT(1940 & 1952-1959)9 years
IRVING F. DILLON(1940 – 1945)16 years
THEODORE F. MEIER(1947)1 year
EDWARD G. ROEPE(1947 Appointed to fill
T.F.Meier’s Term)
1 year
STEPHEN DOIG, JR.(1946 & 1948 – 1951)
(1970-1971)
7 years
JOHN A. STEFAN(1950 – 1965)16 years
WILLIAM E. VINES(1960 – 1969)210 years
EDWARD J. FLYNN(1966 – 1981)16 years
ROBERT MAIDMAN(1972 – 1979)8 years
WILLIAM WRAY(1978 – Resigned 1991)14 years
MURRAY JACOBSON(1980 – 1983)4 years
WILLIAM A. KELLY(1982 – 1987)6 years
HARRY WAITZMAN(1982 – Resigned in 1991)10 years
KENNETH S. RONES(1984 – 1995)12 years
VICTOR VITALE(1988)1 year
VICTOR J. ALFIERI, JR.(1989 – 2006)18 years
HARRY EDELSTEIN(1991 – 1993)3 years
SCOTT B. UGELL(1991 – PRESENT) 
CLARE McCUE CINCOTTA(1993)½ year
CRAIG E. JOHNS(1993 – PRESENT) 
JOEL J. FLICK(1996 – 2008)12 years
HOWARD GERBER(2007 – PRESENT) 
ROLF THORSEN(2008-2014)6 years
David Ascher (2014 to Present)(2014 to Present) 

*Records from 1839-1856 missing
1Later became Supervisor of the Town
2Later became Supervisor of the Town