Barry D. Kramer (born November 10, 1942)[1] is an American retired professional basketball player, a retired jurist, and an attorney. Kramer is known for being a Parade All-American basketball player for Linton High School in Schenectady, New York and for being an All-American collegiate basketball player for New York University. Following his playing career, he served as a trial court judge in the New York state court system.
Basketball career
A 6'4" (1.93 m), 200-pound guard–forward, Kramer played for Linton High School in Schenectady, New York.[1][2] Future NBA basketball player and coach Pat Riley was a freshman at Linton when Kramer was a senior.[3] Kramer won two Section II championships at Linton and was named a first-team Parade All-American in 1960.[2][4] He was later inducted into the Schenectady School District Hall of Fame.[2][5]
After graduating from Linton in 1960,[2] Kramer attended New York University (NYU). Kramer was named a consensus first-team All-American as a junior in 1963.[6] That year, Kramer was the second-leading scorer in college basketball, averaging 29.3 points per game;[7] he also received the Haggerty Award as the best college basketball player in the New York City metropolitan area.[8] Kramer played in the 1963 NCAA tournament and the 1964 NIT with NYU.[2] As a senior in the 1963–64 season, Kramer was named a third-team All-American by both the Associated Press and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.[9][10] He was later named to the NYU Athletic Hall of Fame.[2]
In 2009, Kramer was selected by the Capital District Basketball Hall of Fame as the premier area basketball player over the past 50 years.[2] He was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2014.[11][12]
Legal and judicial career
Kramer became an attorney[13] after graduating from Albany Law School in 1968;[2] he finished second in his class.[7] He was appointed to a Surrogate Court judgeship in Schenectady, New York by Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1993, was elected to the post later that year, and was re-elected in 2003.[14] In November 2009, Kramer was elected as a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court–a trial-level court–in New York's Fourth Judicial District.[14] After reaching the mandatory retirement age for New York judges in 2012, Kramer continued to serve on the court through a certification process available to retired judges.[15][16] Kramer joined the law firm of McNamee Lochner P.C. in 2019.[17]