Name Thomas Sullivan | ||
Thomas R. Sullivan (died 2012) was an Associate Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court from 1986 to 2001.
Biography
Sullivan was born around the year 1926. He served as a sergeant in the Combat Engineers during World War II.
He graduated from Villanova College in 1949, and Fordham University School of Law in 1952, and in 1962 earned an LL.M. degree from Brooklyn Law School.
Sullivan served as an assistant district attorney in Richmond County from 1956 until 1964, and as chief assistant district attorney from 1973 until 1975. In the interim, he worked at Sullivan Securities, a family business. In 1975, he won election as District Attorney of Richmond County, and he was re-elected in 1979.
In 1982, Sullivan was elected to the New York Supreme Court for the Second Judicial District. He was designated to the Appellate Division, Second Department in 1986, and served in that capacity until his retirement in 2001.
Sullivan served as President of the New York State District Attorneys Association from 1990 until 1992. He died on February 27, 2012, at the age of 86.