John F. Scileppi
American judge
John Francis Scileppi (July 17, 1902, Corona, Queens, New York City – November 26, 1987, Stony Brook, New York, Suffolk County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician.
Life
He was the son of Ignatius Scileppi and Nunzia Scileppi. He graduated from Newtown High School, and he earned an LL.B. from Fordham University School of Law in 1925. He was admitted to the bar in 1926. On January 30, 1929, he married Katherine I. Shea, and they had three children. He was Chief Deputy Clerk of Queens County from 1938 to 1939.
In 1939, he was elected to the Municipal Court of Queens County, and re-elected in 1949. In 1951, he was elected to the County Court of Queens County, and was designated to the New York Supreme Court.
In 1962, he was elected on the Democratic and Liberal tickets to the New York Court of Appeals. In 1963, he was the author of a controversial opinion that banned the sale in New York State of Tropic of Cancer, a novel by Henry Miller, on the ground that it was pornographic.
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