Samuel David Levy (January 12, 1860 – December 26, 1940) was a Jewish-American lawyer and judge from New York City.
[2] After being admitted to the bar, Levy became counsel for several large corporations and specialized in cooperation, commercial, and real estate law as well as negligence suits and equity cases.
Active in various public services, he was a director of the United Hebrew Charities from 1882 to 1895, its counsel without pay from 1889 to 1895, and an associate patron.
[4] In 1913, Mayor William Jay Gaynor appointed Levy Magistrate to succeed Moses Herrman.
The funeral was also attended by Domestic Relations Court Justices Joseph F. Maquire, Herbert O'Brien, Bruce Cobb, Stephen S. Jackson, and Jacob Panken, former Domestic Relations Court Justices Peter B. Hanson, Isaac Siegel, and Charles C. Brandt, Supreme Court Justices Harry E. Lewis, Meier Steinbrink, and Algernon I. Nova, former Board of Education president Henry C. Turner, Kings County administrative officer of the Domestic Relations Court Louis Wolff, former Board of Education member and impartial administrator of the painting industry Louis S. Posner, and novelist Fannie Hurst.
[13] In 1942, a portrait of Levy commissioned by his widow was hung in the Children's Court at 137 East 22nd Street, where he served more than thirteen years.