--- title: "R. Bruce Cozzens, Jr. | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/r-bruce-cozzens-jr-ny-trial-f67584da" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-07" --- # R. Bruce Cozzens, Jr. Nassau County Supreme Court · Justice ## Profile - Court: Nassau County Supreme Court - State: New York - Role: Justice - Service status: active - Last verified: 2026-07-27 ## Summary Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge. ## Biography ### Professional career - Justice, New York Supreme Court, Nassau County, NY, 2012-2025 - Justice, New York Supreme Court, Nassau County, NY, 1998-2011 - Justice, Supreme Court, Nassau County, Elected, 1998 to 2011 - R. Bruce Cozzens, Jr. is a retired justice of the Nassau County Supreme Court in New York’s 10th Judicial District, elected in 1997 and re‐elected in 2011 - Now active as a mediator and arbitrator through Mediation Solutions of NY, LLC - Current role (retired from bench): Justice, Nassau County Supreme Court, 10th Judicial District - Leadership: Served 21 years as Presiding Justice of the Trial Assignment Part - Practice before joining bench: Senior partner at McCabe & Cozzens ### Education - Pace University-New York — J.D. (1980) - Latin American Studies — University of Virginia-Main Campus — 1971 ### Additional information - Re-elected, 2012 to 2023 - Date of birth: 1949-02-12 - Current court assignment: Supreme Court, Nassau County - handling personal injury matters - focusing on personal injury, medical malpractice, commercial, and municipal law cases - overseeing daily conferencing of trial‐ready cases, settling hundreds without trial, and initiating streaming of expedited jury trials - Birth place: Buffalo, NY ## Before you appear - Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed. - Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance. - Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding. ## Courtroom Rules ### recording and photography Scope: statewide New York statewide rules require permission before photographing, filming, videotaping, audiotaping, broadcasting, or telecasting in court facilities, including courtrooms. Evidence excerpt: Taking photographs, films or videotapes, or audiotaping, broadcasting or telecasting, in a courthouse including any courtroom, office or hallway thereof, at any time or on any occasion, whether or not the court is in session, is forbidden, unless permission of the Chief Administrator of the Courts or a designee of the Chief Administrator is first obtained [Part 29: Electronic Recording and Audio-Visual Coverage in Court Facilities and of Court Proceedings](https://www.nycourts.gov/rules/part-29-electronic-recording-and-audio-visual-coverage-court-facilities-and-court-proceedings?from_node=15921&topic=386&wrapped=true) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ### evidence presentation control Scope: statewide The official Guide to New York Evidence identifies court control over presentation of evidence as a statewide evidence topic; counsel should expect the assigned judge to control the mode and order of proof. Evidence excerpt: 1.07. COURT CONTROL OVER PRESENTATION OF EVIDENCE [Guide to New York Evidence: Article 1, General Provisions and Court's Role](https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/evidence/1-GENERAL/1-generalprovisions.shtml) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ## Sources - [Official profile](https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/judicialdirectory/Bio?judge_id=jR0Bt3U51bKU_PLUS_OnPDj2PGQ%3D%3D) - [Official roster](https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/judicialdirectory/Bio?judge_id=jR0Bt3U51bKU_PLUS_OnPDj2PGQ%3D%3D) - [New York State Unified Court System official judicial roster](https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/judicialdirectory/Bio?judge_id=jR0Bt3U51bKU_PLUS_OnPDj2PGQ%3D%3D) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/14664/r-bruce-cozzens-jr/) - [Part 29: Electronic Recording and Audio-Visual Coverage in Court Facilities and of Court Proceedings](https://www.nycourts.gov/rules/part-29-electronic-recording-and-audio-visual-coverage-court-facilities-and-court-proceedings?from_node=15921&topic=386&wrapped=true) - [Guide to New York Evidence: Article 1, General Provisions and Court's Role](https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/evidence/1-GENERAL/1-generalprovisions.shtml) - [New York State Unified Court System judicial profile or roster](https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/judicialdirectory/Bio?judge_id=jR0Bt3U51bKU_PLUS_OnPDj2PGQ%3D%3D) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/14664/r-bruce-cozzens-jr/) ## JSON-LD ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/r-bruce-cozzens-jr-ny-trial-f67584da", "url": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/r-bruce-cozzens-jr-ny-trial-f67584da", "name": "R. 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Collected 2026-10-27. - [Part 29: Electronic Recording and Audio-Visual Coverage in Court Facilities and of Court Proceedings](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-99a7824bb8e009643f842c03) — Scope is limited to the court class in the source claim. Shared court context only; case-type restrictions, exceptions, later amendments and case orders apply. This is not a personal preference or a complete rules inventory. [Official source](https://www.nycourts.gov/rules/part-29-electronic-recording-and-audio-visual-coverage-court-facilities-and-court-proceedings?from_node=15921&topic=386&wrapped=true). Collected 2026-07-26. - [Part 29: Electronic Recording and Audio-Visual Coverage in Court Facilities and of Court Proceedings](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-34fe480ab82f22fa3c31d257) — Scope is limited to the court class in the source claim. Shared court context only; case-type restrictions, exceptions, later amendments and case orders apply. This is not a personal preference or a complete rules inventory. [Official source](https://www.nycourts.gov/rules/part-29-electronic-recording-and-audio-visual-coverage-court-facilities-and-court-proceedings?from_node=15921&topic=386&wrapped=true). Collected 2026-07-26.