The Hon. Alan M. Beckoff is a judge for the Kings County Family Court in the Second Judicial District of New York. He was originally appointed to the Civil Court of the City of New York by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2008. He was then subsequently appointed by Mayor Bloomberg to the Kings County Family Court that same year.
Judge Beckoff received his A.B. from Lafayette College in 1978. He went on to earn his J.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law in 1981.
Beckoff began his legal career as an attorney at the New York City Human Resources Administration in 1982. Then, in 1987, he joined the New York City Law Department. During his twenty-one-year tenure there, Beckoff served as deputy borough chief in the Family Court Division and as senior counsel in the Appeals Division. He remained with the New York City Law Department until his appointment to the Civil Court in 2008.