Lee L. Holzman

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Lee L. Holzman

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Bronx County Surrogate's Court

Tenure

Present officeholder

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Education

Bachelor's

Brooklyn College

Law

New York University School of Law

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Lee L. Holzman was a judge for the Bronx County Surrogate's Court in New York. He began serving in this position in 1988, and retired at the end of 2012.

Education

Holzman attended Brooklyn College of the City University of New York for his undergraduate degree and later New York University for his J.D.

Career

Holzman began his career in 1966 as a law clerk for the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The following year, he joined the law firm of Kaiser & Holzman, where he worked as an attorney until 1970. He then served as an attorney for Klotz & Gould from 1970 to 1973 and for Unterberg, Bandler, & Goldstein from 1973 to 1974. He worked as law secretary for Judge Bertram Gelfund of Bronx County from 1974 to 1978. He then served as the Chief Law Assistant of the Bronx County Surrogate's Court from 1978 until he became a judge of that court in 1988.

Censure

In December 2012, just before his retirement, Holzman was censured by the New York State Judicial Conduct Commission for approving hundreds of thousands of dollars in unexplained fees for a close friend, Michael Lippman, a lawyer Holzman had appointed to oversee the estates of people who died without wills. Three of the ten members of the commission insisted that Holzman be removed from his post, but the majority voted for censure instead.