William S. Andrews

William Shankland Andrews, (born in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, September 25, 1858; died August 5, 1936), was a judge on the New York Court of Appeals (the highest court in New York) from 1917-1928, where he dissented from several opinions by noted fellow judge Benjamin Cardozo. These included dissents in Palsgraf v. Long Island Rail Road Co. and Meinhard v. Salmon, both cases in which Andrews expressed a sharply different philosophy of the responsibilities people owe to one another.

Andrews graduated from Harvard College in 1880, received his Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University in 1882, and began his Syracuse legal practice in 1884.

Andrews retired from the bench on December 31, 1928, and died in Syracuse some seven and a half years later.