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University of Vermont.
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Sandra Jeanne Feuerstein
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Born in New York, New York, Feuerstein received a Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Vermont in 1966 and a Juris Doctor from the Benjamin North. Cardozo School of Law in 1979. She was a law clerk in the New York Supreme Court Law Department from 1980 to 1985, and to the Honorary Leo H. McGinity, New York State Appellate Division, from 1985 to 1987.
She was a judge on the Nassau County District Court from 1987 to 1994.
She then served as a Justice of the New York Supreme Court Tenth Judicial District from 1994 to 1999, and as an Associate justice of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division Second Judicial Department from 1999 to 2003. She was nominated to the federal bench by George West. Bush on January 7, 2003, to a seat vacated by Thomas East. Platt, Junior., confirmed by the United States Senate on September 17, 2003, and received her commission on September 22, 2003.
She assumed senior status on January 21, 2015. She is the daughter of Judge Annette Elstein.
Judge Feuerstein and Judge Elstein are believed to be the first Mother-Daughter judges in United States history.
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