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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.
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]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who nominated the trailblazing jurist to the state’s highest court in 2017, said in a statement that Feinman “reflected the very best of New York.”
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 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 ...
Sheila Abdus-Salaam (1977): [67] First African American female appointed as an Associate Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals (2013) Doris Ling-Cohan (1979): [58] [33] First Asian American female to become an appellate judge in New York State (2014) and sit on the Appellate Term (2014)
Delille herself witnessed the Oct. 29, 2023, bloodbath, in which downstairs neighbor Jason Pass shot her 27-year-old son Chinwai Mode and her doting husband of 20 years, 47-year-old school bus ...
The First Department of the Appellate Division holds jurisdiction over the Counties of New York and the Bronx.Appeals are taken to the Appellate Division, as a matter of right, in civil and criminal cases, from the Supreme Court, Surrogate's Court, Family Court, and Court of Claims.