Hon. Edward O. Spain

Justice Edward O. Spain is an Associate Justice of the Appellate Division, Third Department, appointed on December 30, 1994. He was graduated from LaSalle Institute in Troy, Boston College and Albany Law School. He served in the U.S. Navy, JAGC. He began his legal career in private practice in Troy with his father in 1966, and then served as Deputy Clerk of Rensselaer County Surrogate's Court, Assistant Rensselaer County District Attorney and Deputy Corporation Counsel of the City of Troy. Justice Spain was elected to City of Troy Police Court in 1977, Rensselaer County Family Court in 1985, and Supreme Court in 1991 (and reelected in 2005). He has also served as Administrative Judge for the Third Judicial District.

Justice Spain is a past chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Children and the Law and a recipient of the Committee’s Howard A. Levine Award for Excellence in Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare.

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