Judge Ernest Cavallo

Ernest Cavallo, Supervising Judge of the Housing Court for New York County, was born and raised in Bergen County New Jersey. He graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton New York in 1971 with an A.B. in Asian history. As as a sales associate at Saks Fifth Avenue, he worked his way though a masters program at NYU. He received a Masters in Educational Psychology in 1974. For thirteen happy years he taught children with learning disabilities and emotional problems at Intermediate School 238 in Hollis in Queens County. During his last four years with the then Board of Education, he attended Fordham University School of Law in the evening division. He graduated with a J.D. in 1986 and was admitted to practice law in the Second Department in 1987. For the next ten years Judge Cavallo worked at the Office of the Corporation Counsel for the City of New York in the Tort Division, eventually rising to the position of Chief of the Manhattan Trial Unit where he supervised twenty attorneys and thirty support workers. He remains very proud of his work there and the many friends he made with his colleagues,clients and adversaries while defending the City of New York.

In 1997 the Honorable Jonathan Lippman appointed Judge Cavallo to the Housing Court. He spent his first three years in Queens County until Judge Lippman appointed him to the newly created position of Supervising Judge of the Housing Court for New York County where he still sits.

Judge Cavallo spends his spare time in his garden and on Ebay where he collects vintage lawn sprinklers.

Information about Judge Cavallo is also available on the Judicial Directory.