Dim Bulb: Brooklyn Family Court Judge Bernard Graham

Dim Bulb: Brooklyn Family Court Judge Bernard Graham

Published February 28, 2011 5:00am ET



Who: Brooklyn Family Court Judge Bernard Graham

What: Ordered that a high-school boy live with his homeless father in a shelter rather than with his mother, who makes $90,000 per year as a court clerk. They even denied the boy’s mother visiting rights.

Why it’s dim: The father has been living in storefronts and borrowed rooms for years, but ruled that the boy should stay with his father after the mother offered “barbed criticism of the court and the legal process.”

Cure: Don’t take it personally when it’s true.