Salvatore Martoche

Judge Martoche has extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution at the federal, state, and local levels in addition to his 13 years on the Supreme Court bench. As an assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury under Presidents Reagan and Bush from 1988 to 1990, Martoche oversaw all law enforcement operations in the Treasury Department. Prior to that, he served as an assistant secretary of the U.S. Labor Department under President Reagan. While in federal service, Judge Martoche was a key official involved in correcting the country's savings and loan scandals of the 1980s. Earlier in his career, Judge Martoche was U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, and he served as one of the six commissioners of the New York State Commission of Investigation, which investigated allegations of organized crime and public corruption statewide. Judge Martoche also served as a Buffalo public defender and was in private practice for more than 20 years.