Judge Profile

William E. McCarthy

Judicial Experience:

  • Justice, Appellate Division, Third Department, Appointed (January 30, 2009)
  • Associate Justice, Appellate Division, Second Department, Appointed (December 2006)
  • Justice-in-charge, Commercial Division, Supreme Court (2006)
  • Supreme Court for the Third Judicial District, Appointed, June 2004

Other Professional Experience:

  • Senior Assistant Counsel, Governor George Pataki, 1998 to 2004
  • Confidential law clerk, Court of Claims Judge Edward Sheridan, 1997 to 1998
  • Confidential law clerk, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Harris, 1994 to 1997
  • Confidential law clerk, Supreme Court Justice Edward Conway, 1990 to 1993
  • Fomer Adjunct professor, Siena College

Education:

  • Albany Law School
  • State University College of New York at Potsdam