Elrich Allen Eastman, whose nearly six-decade legal career included serving as commissioner of the Board of Elections and as a Bronx Family Court judge, died last week at his Harlem home following a long illness. He was 87.
Born in Washington, D.C., the future judge spent his early years in Guyana, the British West Indies. He moved to New York in 1936 and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. He earned his bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1944 and his law degree in 1946 from New York University School of Law.
