Westchester County judge admonished by watchdog agency

Daily Record Staff//April 14, 2025//

The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has determined that Westchester County Court Judge Melissa A. Loehr should be admonished.

The commission found that Loehr should be disciplined for misconduct in two traffic cases.

In March 2018, while serving as a Peekskill City Court judge, Loehr dismissed a traffic ticket issued to her co-judge’s daughter, without disclosing the relationship or that the defendant was a friend of her own daughter, according to the commission.

In January 2017, after her daughter received a traffic ticket in the town of Cortlandt, Loehr called the court on her daughter’s behalf and gratuitously told the deputy court clerk, “I don’t know if you know, I’m the judge in Peekskill.”

Judge Loehr has been a Westchester County Court judge since 2020. She previously served as a Peekskill City Court judge from 2017 to 2019. Her current term expires on Dec. 31, 2029.

Tags: westchester county, judges, The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct

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