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Mark D. Fox (born August 4, 1943) is an American attorney and judge from New York.

Early Life
Mark D. Fox was born on August 4, 1943, the son of Morris and Susan Fox. His father was a New York City police officer, eventually retiring as an NYPD Lieutenant. He lived in Queens and Bronx Counties, New York City, before moving to New York's Hudson Valley in the 1970's.

Education
He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1964, and received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1967.

Military Service
Fox served in the United States Army from 1968 to 1970, in the Criminal Investigation Division, Military Police.

Career
After completing his military service, Fox was an Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx County District Attorney's Office, and thereafter was Assistant District Attorney in the Orange County District Attorney's Office. He subsequently served as Chief Trial Attorney and then Chief Attorney and Public Defender, in the Orange County Legal Aid Society; and then as a partner in the law firm of Shapiro & Fox, on Lawyer's Row in Goshen, New York. In 1977, he joined the law firm of Cohen, Bavoso, Weinstein & Fox, in Port Jervis, New York, and remained a partner in the subsequent iterations of the firm until his appointment to the Federal Bench in 1988, when the firm was known as Bavoso, Fox & Coffill. ,

In 1988, Fox was appointed a United States Magistrate Judge (part-time), of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York at Newburgh and West Point, and entered on duty May 31, 1988. ,, , Fox was thereafter appointed a full-time United States Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York at White Plains, in 1991, and entered on duty September 3, 1991. ,, ,

In 1996, Fox was appointed by then-Chief Justice of the United States William H. Rehnquist to serve on the Committee on Security & Facilities of the Judicial Conference of the United States; a committee to which he was re-appointed for a second term in 1999 by Chief Justice Rehnquist.

In 2000, Fox served as a visiting lecturer in trial practice at the Harvard Law School.

Fox was the second federal judge ever appointed from Orange County, New York. The first was Hon. John Bright, a United States District Judge, appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941.

Judge Fox retired from the Court on August 5, 2008, after almost 20 years of federal judicial service.

Personal Life
In November 1975, Fox married the former Jean Amatucci, then a New York State Assemblywoman. On March 14, 1978, their son Michael Louis Fox was born.