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Sheila Abdus-Salaam (née Turner; March 14, 1952 – April 12, 2017) [1] was an American lawyer and judge. In 2013, after having served on the New York City Civil Court, the New York Supreme Court, and the Appellate Division, Abdus-Salaam was nominated to the New York Court of Appeals (New York's highest court) and was unanimously confirmed as an Associate Judge by the New York State Senate.
Judge Court/agency and years of service (if known) State/territory Status Sheila Abdus-Salaam [18] New York City Civil Court (1992–1993); New York Supreme Court (1993–2009); Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department (2009–2013); New York Court of Appeals (2013–2017) New York: deceased: Nancy Abudu [19]
In June 2017, Cuomo nominated Feinman to the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, to the seat left vacant by the death of Sheila Abdus-Salaam. [8] He was unanimously confirmed by the New York Senate the same month. Feinman was the first openly LGBT person to serve on New York's highest court. [2] [5] [9]
Biggers, who remained a senior district judge until his death, presided over many other landmark cases including one regarding the […] The post US Judge Biggers, who ruled on funding for Black ...
Sheila Abdus-Salaam, 65, American judge, member of the New York Court of Appeals (since 2013), suicide by drowning. [ 216 ] Ramesh Chandra Agarwal , 72, Indian newspaper publisher ( Dainik Bhaskar ), heart attack.
In her first public comments since a lawyer known for his misogynistic screeds shot and killed her son and seriously injured her husband at their home, a federal judge in New Jersey called for ...
An outgoing person, she told the outlet, her ex-husband "died doing what he absolutely loved.” "He had a beautiful energy about him," Jerri Sherer, of Jackson, Mississippi, told USA TODAY. "He ...
A majority of federal judges who died in office in the 18th and 19th centuries died before reaching the age of 65, with several dying in their 30s. As one source has noted, "given what we now know about health and ageing, it must have been uncommon then for old age to impact adversely on the performance of a federal judge's official duties.