Sandra J. Feuerstein

Sandra Jeanne Feuerstein (January 21, 1946 – April 9, 2021) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Education and career Born in New York City, New York, Feuerstein received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Vermont in 1966 and a Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in 1979. She was a teacher in the New York Public School System (Frances X. Hegarty Elementary School/Island Park)from 1966 to 1971. She was a law clerk in the New York Supreme Court Law Department from 1980 to 1985, and to Judge 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. Federal judicial service