Who appointed Leonard Burke Sand?

President Jimmy Carter appointed Leonard Burke Sand to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1978.

Was Leonard Burke Sand appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Leonard Burke Sand was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Leonard Burke Sand's confirmation vote?

Leonard Burke Sand was confirmed by voice vote on May 17, 1978. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Southern District of New York / Appointed 1978 / Served to 2016

Leonard Burke Sand

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 and confirmed by voice vote, Leonard Burke Sand was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He earned a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1951. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1928–2016
Appointed by: Jimmy Carter, 1978
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: New York School of Commerce 1947 · Harvard Law School 1951
Succeeded: Charles Miller Metzner
Succeeded by: Barrington Daniels Parker Jr.

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Southern District of New York succeeded Charles Miller Metzner	Carter (D)	Voice vote

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.

Confirmation vote

Voice vote

The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.

Education

New York University School of Commerce	B.S.	1947
Harvard Law School	LL.B.	1951

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Sand was assigned 3,215 district-court cases (1975–2013). Median time from filing to termination: 251 days across 3,212 closed cases.

Contract27%

Prisoner & habeas15%

Personal-injury torts12%

Civil rights12%

Labor & ERISA9%

Intellectual property7%

Other19%

Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.

On appeal

Of 56 of Sand’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 51 were affirmed, 2 reversed or vacated, and 3 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.

In our data, Sand authored 421 published opinions for the court (1978–2011). Most cited: Whitehorn v. Wolfgang's Steakhouse, Inc. (164 citations).

A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Recent & notable rulings

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2011	Whitehorn v. Wolfgang's Steakhouse, Inc.	767 F. Supp. 2d 445	164
1994	Gordon & Breach Science Publishers S.A. v. American Institute of Physics	859 F. Supp. 1521	142
2005	Doo Nam Yang v. ACBL CORP.	427 F. Supp. 2d 327	93
1987	In Re Gas Reclamation, Inc. Securities Litigation	659 F. Supp. 493	92
1985	United States v. Yonkers Board of Education	624 F. Supp. 1276	87
2009	Burton v. Lynch	664 F. Supp. 2d 349	82
1990	Olin Corp. v. Insurance Co. of North America	743 F. Supp. 1044	78
1997	Dornberger v. Metropolitan Life Insurance	961 F. Supp. 506	76
1986	Soper v. Simmons International Ltd.	632 F. Supp. 244	76
2010	Fendi Adele S.R.L. v. Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corp.	689 F. Supp. 2d 585	69
1993	Morris Okun, Inc. v. Harry Zimmerman, Inc.	814 F. Supp. 346	67
2011	In Re Beacon Associates Litigation	818 F. Supp. 2d 697	65
1999	Lennon v. Seaman	63 F. Supp. 2d 428	63
1983	Sapir v. Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Greater New York (In Re Yonkers Hamilton Sanitarium Inc.)	34 B.R. 385	61
1995	131 Main Street Associates v. Manko	897 F. Supp. 1507	59

Showing the 15 most-cited of 421 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

Who appointed Leonard Burke Sand?: President Jimmy Carter appointed Leonard Burke Sand to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1978.
Was Leonard Burke Sand appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Leonard Burke Sand was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Leonard Burke Sand's confirmation vote?: Leonard Burke Sand was confirmed by voice vote on May 17, 1978. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was Leonard Burke Sand on?: Leonard Burke Sand was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Sources

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38 years on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).