New York judge killed in hit and run while on vacation in Florida

JTA – Sandra Feuerstein, federal judge from Long Island, New York, was killed by a driver on Friday while vacationing in Boca Raton, Florida.

Feuerstein, 75, was hit while walking on a sidewalk near the beach. The driver, a 23-year-old woman, remained in jail on Sunday on $ 60,000 bail, reported the Sun-Sentinel.

Feuerstein was appointed to the Eastern District of New York by President George W. Bush in 2003 after serving as a judge in New York State for 16 years.

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Born in New York, she worked as a teacher before earning a law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1979.

Feuerstein and his late mother, Judge Annette Elstein of the New York Immigration Court, made history by becoming the first mother and daughter in the United States to simultaneously serve as a judge.

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