Judge Thomas Sheeran is a native of New York City’s borough of Queens and grew up in Katonah in Westchester County’s Town of Bedford. A graduate of Ithaca College, Sheeran possesses advanced degrees from Ithaca College and Niagara University, and a doctorate from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Elected Town Justice in 1992, Sheeran has been re-elected every four years and was elected in 2023 to a ninth term in office.

A longtime member of the Faculty of Education at Niagara University, Judge Sheeran is the author of dozens of articles, books and monographs, and has presented papers and workshops across the U.S., Canada, and Asia. He is a member or fellow of many professional education and judicial societies and has served in various capacities in the New York State Magistrates Association.  That association, comprised of approximately two thousand one hundred and ten judges, representing over twelve hundred town and village courts, is one of the largest judicial associations in the United States

Additionally, Judge Sheeran has served as a member of the senior faculty for the New York State Judicial Institute’s Continuing Education program for Town and Village Justices presenting programs in various venues across the State. In 2008, Judge Sheeran was appointed by the Chief Administrative Judge to the Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics.  In that capacity, Sheeran became the first non-attorney to serve on that committee.

Sheeran has been married to his wife Maureen for fifty-four years, has two children, Meaghan and Brendan and two grandchildren, Jack and Rian.