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BIOGRAPHY

Hon. Mark C. Dillon

Mark C. Dillon has been a Justice of the Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department,

since the summer of 2005 and is currently the senior associate justice of the court. He was

elected to the Supreme Court in the Ninth Judicial District in 1999 and re-elected in 2013. Prior,

Justice Dillon served as a Judge of the Westchester County Court in 1997 and as a Town Justice

of the Town of Yorktown from 1988 to 1997. His career also includes three years as a

Westchester County Assistant District Attorney, and a total of twelve years as a trial attorney at

the White Plains law firms of Cerussi & Spring P.C. and Dillon & Sarcone, LLP.

Justice Dillon earned a B.A. from Colgate University, an M.A. from NYU, and a J.D.

from Fordham Law School. He is an author of CPLR Practice Commentaries beginning with the

2019 supplements of McKinney’s, and in the years that follow. He has published seven law

review articles during the past decade through the Albany, Pace, NYU, Cardozo, and Hofstra

Law Schools. Justice Dillon also published a 449-page hard cover book of legal history entitled

Montana Vigilantes 1863-1870: Gold, Guns & Gallows (Univ. of Colorado Press, 2013), one of

five books nominated nationally for “History Book of the Year” by the Mountains and Plains

Independent Booksellers’ Association. More recently, he published a second book of legal

history, The First Chief Justice: John Jay and the Struggle of a New Nation (SUNY Press, 2022),

which focuses on Jay’s career and cases while the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Dillon has been since 2009 an adjunct professor of New York Practice at Fordham Law

School, and through the school, has volunteered time during certain summers teaching mediation

techniques to tribal chiefs, priests, and imams in remote regions of west Africa.