The Hon. Howard Jacob Baum is a judge for the Civil Court of the City of New York, Bronx Housing Court in the Twelfth Judicial District. He was originally appointed to the Kings County Housing Court by the Chief Administrative Judge in 2015.
Judge Baum received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1985. He went on to earn his J.D. from Rutgers Law School-Newark in 1990.
After law school, Baum became a staff attorney at Bronx Legal Services, where he practiced from 1990 to 2000. He then joined The Legal Aid Society, where he served as a supervising attorney until being appointed to the Housing Court in Kings County in 2015.