Leslie Crocker Snyder

Leslie Crocker Snyder
Born	1942 (age 74–75)
Residence	New York City
Nationality	United States
Education	B.A. Radcliffe College J.D. Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Occupation	Attorney Judge
Spouse(s)	Fred Snyder
Children	Nicholas Snyder Douglas Snyder
Parent(s)	Billie Danzinger Crocker Lester Crocker
Family	Edward and Harry Danziger (brothers)

Leslie Crocker Snyder (born 1942) is an American lawyer and former judge, most notable for her challenge of Robert Morgenthau in the Democratic Party primary for the Manhattan District Attorney election in 2005. Morgenthau did not seek re-election in 2009. Snyder ran again. Once again she finished second, this time losing to Cyrus Vance, Jr. by a wide margin.

Crocker was born in Baltimore, Maryland to a non-observant Jewish family, the daughter of Billie (née Danziger) - whose brothers, Edward and Harry Danziger, were film producers and one-time owners of Luna Park - and Lester Crocker - an academic who had changed his surname from Krakower to Crocker. She attended the Bryn Mawr School. Snyder graduated from Radcliffe College (now Harvard) on scholarship in 1962 and completed a certificate from the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration in 1963. She then attended the Case Western Reserve University School of Law - where her father was dean of the graduate school. Snyder was admitted to the Ohio State Bar in 1966 and the New York State Bar in 1967.

Snyder has worked in the New York criminal justice system for over thirty-five years, both as a prosecutor and as a judge. She was the first female to try felony and homicide cases as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's office under Frank Hogan and Robert Morgenthau. During her nine years in the office, Snyder founded and led the Sex Crimes Prosecution Bureau, which was the first in the nation and co-authored New York State's rape shield law.

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