George C. McKinnis was first elected as a Justice of the Bronxville Justice Court in 1994 and is presently serving his sixth four-year term, which ends April 4, 2018.   He, with the aid of many others, created a system for use by his Court and other Courts of criminal jurisdiction that sentences selected criminal defendants to a year of therapies and interventions under Court supervision.  This program is in lieu of incarceration and is fully described in the page of this Site entitled “Community Restorative Justice.”

Under New York State law, a sitting Justice is not allowed to participate in any solicitation of charitable contributions and he is not allowed to be a participant in partisan politics.  There are many other ethical considerations and prohibitions that are applicable that apply to a sitting Justices whether he or she is on and off of the Bench.