Henry Leo Sherman (December 5, 1870 – July 11, 1933) was a Jewish-American lawyer and judge from New York City.
He was a counsel for the Office of Alien Property Custodian from 1917 to 1918, and from 1926 to 1927 he served as a member of the committee for examination of character and fitness of applicants for admission to the Bar.
[6] He ran as the Democratic candidate and was endorsed by, among other people, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Samuel Untermyer, and Republican Louis Marshall.
[7] In 1930, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him to the Appellate Division to succeed the retiring Justice Joseph M.
[8] In 1931, during the Hofstadter Committee, Sherman granted a stay to Dr. William F. Doyle, a former Fire Department veterinarian who was appealing a thirty-day jail sentence for contempt of the Committee, following a telephone call from Tammany Hall leader John F. Curry.
The Bar Association's executive committee investigated his actions, and while they didn't find anything that reflected on his impartiality, integrity or judicial conduct they concluded his part was an unfortunate intrusion.
[1] Sherman died at his summer home in Lake Placid from a lingering illness on July 11, 1933.