Presiding Justice Henry J. Scudder

Henry J. Scudder received his law degree from the University of Tennessee in 1969. He was admitted in 1970 and began his career practicing law in Bath, New York. Between 1972 and 1979, he served as an Assistant District Attorney and then as First Assistant District Attorney in Steuben County. Between 1982 and 1996, he served as a Judge of the Surrogate’s Court in Steuben County and also presided in Supreme, County and Family Court. He was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court in the Seventh Judicial District in 1996. He was designated as an Associate Justice to the Appellate Division, Fourth Department in 1999. Justice Scudder currently serves as a Liaison to the Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection. He is a member of the Steuben County Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association; Past President and Executive Committee Member of the New York State Surrogates' Association; Member of the New York State EPTL-SPCA Committee in reviewing and recommending amendments pertaining to the Estates, Powers and Trust Law and the Surrogate's Court Procedure Act; the New York State Supreme Court Justices Association, the Association of Supreme Court Justices of the Seventh Judicial District, the Steuben County Agricultural Society, the Women’s Center of the Southern Tier and the BPO Elks, USA. On November 17, 2006, Governor Pataki appointed Justice Scudder to be Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division, Fourth Department.