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The Honorable Barry E. Warhit is an Associate Justice of the Appellate
Division, Second Judicial Department, having been appointed to this position
on May 25, 2022 by Governor Kathy Hochul. Justice Warhit was elected to
the New York State Supreme Court in 2018 to a 14-year term commencing in
2019. He previously was appointed by Governor David Paterson in 2010 to
the Westchester County Court and was elected to a 10-year term commencing

in 2011.

Justice Warhit was appointed in 2015 as Supervising Judge of the Superior
Criminal Parts of the Ninth Judicial District and served in that position until

becoming an Appellate Division Justice.

He previously served as an Associate Justice of the Appellate Term of the New
York State Supreme Court, Ninth and Tenth Districts of the Second
Department from January 2022 through May 24, 2022. He also served as the
Acting Village Justice of Tarrytown from April 2006 through April 2010 and

as Acting Judge of the Mount Vernon City Court and Yonkers City Court.

Justice Warhit has lectured on numerous occasions to the members of the
Westchester County Magistrates Association and to judges at the New York

State Judicial Institute.

Prior to his appointment to the Westchester County Court, Justice Warhit had
fifteen years experience as a criminal defense attorney defending serious
felony cases and trying sixty-two felony trials to verdict. He also served as an

Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office
and was an associate attorney practicing civil law with two New York City law
firms.

Justice Warhit received his B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the

University of Pennsylvania in 1978 and his J.D. from Duke University School
of Law in 1981.

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