Arthur Mitchell Kahn, 70, of Woodstock

Arthur Mitchell Kahn, born May 27, 1947, in Inwood, Manhattan, to Anne Weber and Leo Leonard Kahn, died at home June 2, 2017. He was 70 years old.

Arthur attended The Bronx School of Science, then went on to NYU, where he received his B.A. in politics in 1968, graduating with honors. He received his Juris Doctor in 1974 from Rutgers-The State University at Newark. Prior to attending law school, Arthur was the advance man for the Honorable Richard Oettinger during his U.S. Senate run in 1970. During attendance at Rutgers, he took a semester off to be a national advance man for Senator Edmund Muskie in the 1972 presidential election. He later ran a Co-op City campaign for the Honorable Jonathan Bingham, D-Bronx, and then took a position with Congressman Bingham as a Special Assistant while he completed law school.

He was a member of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic while at Rutgers.

The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a teaching assistant for one of his professors.

In 1979, Arthur was the first attorney appointed Assistant Public Defender by Jay Kaplan, Esq., the first public defender in Ulster County. He was assigned to the Town of Wawarsing and Village of Ellenville Justice Court. He served in various other courts as a public defender for a total of 10 years. He was also the town attorney for the Town of Rochester, serving under three supervisors, for a period of 8 years. Arthur served as attorney for the Town of Woodstock from 2000 to 2006. During his tenure in Woodstock, he was instrumental in the drafting the Comeau Easement and the Town Environmental Law.

Arthur is survived by his children, who were the pride and joy, Jillian Grace Kahn-Urrutia and her husband Anibal Urrutia of Saugerties and his son Liam Christopher Kahn of Washington, D.C. He is also survived by his ex-wife and good friend Kerry Muldoon of Woodstock.

Friends will be received Tuesday, 4 to 7 p.m., at Lasher Funeral Home Inc., 100 Tinker St., Woodstock, followed by a service. Burial will be in Montrepose Cemetery, Kingston.