Patrick J. Ryan (January 19, 1861 – February 29, 1940) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge from New York.
[1] In 1884, Ryan graduated at the top of his class at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany.
[2] In 1891, Ryan was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Democrat, representing the Onondaga County 1st District.
[3] While in the Assembly, he introduced a bill that created the Syracuse Municipal Court.
Upon the court's creation in 1893, Governor Roswell P. Flower appointed him as a judge.