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Alumni Journal
HM Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Achievement Committee member Bill
Nightingale '49, The Hon. Justice Milton A. Tingling '71, and Committee members Ephram
Lustgarten '96 and Mickey Littmann '52
'96, a committee of members of the Alumni Council researched the
accomplishments of many of our fellow alumni and, over the course of
several meetings, came to the happy selection of Judge Tingling."
Greeting Justice Tingling and thanking him and the attendees
for participating in this special event Horace Mann Head of School
Dr. Tom Kelly used one of Judge Tingling's most famous rulings to
describe the students at Horace Mann School today. In March 2013,
in his New York State Supreme Court role Justice Tingling opposed
then Mayor Mike Bloomberg's proposed ban on the sale of soft drinks
in cups over 16 ounces, calling these limits "arbitrary and capricious"
since they applied unequally to different kinds of businesses. The
proposed soda ban and related ruling became known as the "Big Gulp"
case. Raising a large soda cup, Dr. Kelly told the audience that, just as
Justice Milton A. Tingling
Class of 1971
The Honorable Milton A.
Tingling was born in New York
City and grew up in Harlem and
Washington Heights. He is a
second generation judge and
attorney, and is part of three
generations of family lawyers.
His father, Milton F. Tingling,
was an attorney with a private general law practice on 125th
Street in Manhattan, and was elected to the New York City Civil
Court in 1982. His mother, Eunice Tingling, received a Master of
Arts in Teaching degree from Columbia University in 1950 and
was a New York City public school teacher at PS 125 and PS 36.
The Tinglings' family life centered around education, community
activity, and church.
Justice Tingling attended public school in Harlem in the 1960's,
going first to PS 192 from kindergarten through third grade,
and then to a gifted program at PS 129. He attended high school
at Horace Mann School and was a member of the Class of 1971.
Justice Milton A. Tingling '71, a founder of the Union as a student at HM, enjoyed meeting
current and recent Union members and their HM faculty advisors.
Judge Tingling has made bold decisions, HM students embrace a "Big
Gulp" approach to life in pursuing their studies, co-curricular, service
and athletic activities.
Coming to the podium to accept the award Justice Tingling first
spoke about his Horace Mann School education, noting that his parents gave him self-confidence, but HM gave him confidence to pursue
his greatest goals. He then saluted all the parents who decided to
invest in their children by providing them with a Horace Mann School
education. And, then more specifically, he referred to the sacrifices his
parents, Judge Martin F. Tingling and teacher Eunice Tingling, made
to provide him and his brother Steven Tingling '74 the best education
possible. To rousing applause Justice Tingling concluded: "I dedicate
this award to them." $
Justice Tingling then matriculated at Brown University, where he
earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in American History. He later
received his Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from the North Carolina
Central University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina.
Justice Tingling was admitted to practice before the New
York State Courts, First Department, in 1983. He was elected to
the Civil Court, City of New York, in 1996 from the 7th Municipal
District, which includes Columbia University, West Harlem, and
Washington Heights, and was assigned to and served in both the
criminal and civil courts. In November 2000, he was elected to
the Supreme Court, State of New York, from New York County.
He received national media attention for his decisions that
banned a statewide policy of shackling youths during transfer
from juvenile facilities to family court, and his decision that found
Mayor Bloomberg's so-called "soda ban" unconstitutional.
On November 4, 2014, Justice Tingling was re-elected to
a second 14-year term as Justice of the Supreme Court. On
January 1, 2015, he accepted an appointment to become the
County Clerk of New York County, Commissioner of Jurors and
Clerk of Supreme Court, Civil and Criminal Divisions. By accepting
this appointment, Justice Tingling became the first Black County
Clerk in the history of New York State. $
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