Editing Jerry Sheindlin

{{short description|American judge (born 1933)}}
{{distinguish|Judge Jerry}}
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{{Infobox person
|name        = Jerry Sheindlin
|image       = 
|caption     = 
|birth_name = Gerald Sheindlin
|birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1933|11|19}}
|birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S.
|death_date  = 
|death_place = 
|education   = [[Long Island University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Brooklyn Law School]] ([[Bachelor of Law|LLB]])
|known_for   = ''[[The People's Court]]''
|occupation  = Attorney, author, jurist, television personality
|office = [[Trial Judge]] of the [[New York Supreme Court]]
| children = 3
|spouse      = {{plainlist|
*{{marriage|Suzanne Rosenthal|1965|1977|end=div.}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.leagle.com/decision/1982101888ad2d9301335 |title = SHEINDLIN v. SHEINDLIN {{!}} 88 A.D.2d 930 (1982) {{!}} ad2d9301335 {{!}} Leagle.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/bmd_marriage/?name=Gerald_Sheindlin&gender=m&location=2&priority=usa |title = Gerald Sheindlin - Ancestry.com| website=[[Ancestry.com]] }}</ref>
*{{marriage|[[Judy Sheindlin|Judith Blum]]|1978|1990|end=divorced}}
*{{marriage|<!--Judy Sheindlin-->|1991}}
}}
}}
'''Gerald Sheindlin''' (born November 19, 1933) is an American author, television personality, jurist and attorney. He spent many years as a trial judge serving the [[New York Supreme Court]].<ref>Chronopoulos, Themis (2011). Spatial Regulation in New York City: From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance. United States: Routledge. pp. 161</ref>

== Life and career ==
After serving in the Army during the Korean War, Sheindlin received a B.A. from [[Long Island University]] and a L.L.B from [[Brooklyn Law School]], in 1959. He is the author of two books, ''Genetic Fingerprinting: The Law and Science of [[DNA]] Evidence'' and ''Blood Trail''.

Following his career as a trial judge, Sheindlin became a television arbitrator when he replaced former New York City Mayor [[Ed Koch]] as the presiding judge on ''[[The People’s Court]]'' in the fall of 1999. This put him in competition with his wife [[Judith Sheindlin]], a fellow former judge who presided over top-rated court show ''[[Judge Judy]]'', which ran for 25 seasons from 1996 to 2021 and led to spin-off courtroom streaming series ''[[Judy Justice]]''. Jerry presided over ''The People’s Court'' for the 1999–2000 season and most of the 2000–2001 season, after which he left the series and was replaced by [[Marilyn Milian]].

== Personal life ==
He is married to [[Judy Sheindlin]], better known as Judge Judy (so named after [[Judge Judy|her court TV series]]). The two married in 1978, a second marriage for both. They were divorced in 1990, but they remarried in 1991. Sheindlin has 3&nbsp;children (Gregory, Jonathan and Nicole), 2&nbsp;stepchildren (Jamie and Adam Levy), 13&nbsp;grandchildren, and 1 great-grandchild. Jonathan A. Sheindlin is a retinal surgeon<ref name="NYUMEDICAL">[http://www.med.nyu.edu/biosketch/sheinj03 "Bio: Dr. Jonathan Sheindlin"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114004543/http://www.med.nyu.edu/biosketch/sheinj03 |date=January 14, 2015 }}, NYU Langone Medical Center</ref> and Greg, Adam and Nicole are lawyers.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=0790902}}

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