JUSTICE DAVID I. SCHMIDT received his B.A. from Brooklyn College and J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. He was a law secretary for eleven years to Hon. Gerard Rosenberg and was elected judge of the civil court in 1995. In 2000, Justice Schmidt was appointed an acting Supreme Court Justice by the Chief Administrative Judge and in 2006 he was elected Justice of the Supreme Court, Second Judicial District. Justice Schmidt currently presides over the settlement conference part, city settlement conference part, non-jury trial readiness part, IAS part 47 and commercial part.