The Hon. Jerald S.Carter (Ret.) was a judge for the Nassau County Court in the Tenth Judicial District of New York. He was elected to the County Court in 2008 and retired from its bench as a senior judge in 2017.
Carter began his judicial career as a judge for the Hempstead Village Court in 1989. He remained on the Village Court until 1996. Later, in 1998, he joined the Nassau County District Court, where he served as a judge until 2007. During his tenure on the District Court, Carter was appointed to serve as an acting justice of the Nassau County Supreme Court (1998 to 2007).
He received a B.A. from Fisk University in 1974. He also completed a J.D. at Howard University School of Law in 1977.
After law school, Carter joined the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office, where he worked as an assistant district attorney until 1980.
His legal career also includes working as a private practice attorney, where he practiced alongside his father for ten years. As such, he specialized in criminal, labor, and sports law. In addition to his law practice, Carter served as a negotiating attorney with the Hempstead School Board (1983 to 1990).
He has taught as an adjunct professor at Touro Law School, where he was recognized as the Adjunct Professor of the Year in 2003.
His other awards have included the Outstanding Young Men in America Award, the Norman Lent Award, the NAACP Legal Leadership Award, the COBANC Fidelis Jury Award, and was named Honorary Law Enforcement Man of the Year.
His memberships included the Nassau County Bar Association and the Amistad Long Island Black Bar Association.
Carter also served on the Touro School of Law Board of Governors and was on the Board of Directors of Holy Cross High School. He was a member of the Fisk University Board of Trustees and served on Chief Judge Judith Kaye’s Probation Reform Task Force.
He was born in Harlem, New York.