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Nassau County's Supreme Court is a trial court of broad jurisdiction, though many criminal matters are heard outside its jurisdiction. [2] From May 2008 through April 2009, Driscoll was assigned as a justice in the court's Matrimonial Center, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] before his current assignment to that court's Commercial Division in May 2009.
Lance D. Clarke: [116] First African American male to serve as the President of the Nassau County Bar Association (2007) Alfred Robbins (1957): [31] First African American judge from Long Island to become President of the Board of Judges in the District Court (1974). He later became the first African American male appointed as the Supervising ...
Nickerson was the only Democrat to be elected county executive in Nassau County until 2001. Later, as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York , he presided over a challenge to the Pentagon's " Don't ask, don't tell " policy on homosexuality and the notorious Abner Louima police ...
Two new administrative judges were designated to manage courts in Nassau County and the Bronx on Tuesday, Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks announced.
The court has jurisdiction to hear civil and criminal appeals from the trial courts located in 10 counties: Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester in the Hudson Valley, Nassau and Suffolk on Long Island, and Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, and Richmond (Staten Island) in New York City. These counties comprise 8% of New York State's land ...
Grace D. Moran: [176] First female to serve as the President of the Nassau County Bar Association (1994) Kathleen Rice: [177] First female District Attorney for Long Island (c. 2010) [Nassau County, New York] Linda Kelly Mejias-Glover: [178] First Latino American female to serve as a Judge of the Nassau County Family Court (2017)
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (in case citations, E.D.N.Y.) is the federal district court whose territorial jurisdiction spans five counties in New York State: the four Long Island counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Kings (Brooklyn), and Queens, as well as Richmond (Staten Island), the latter three being among New York City's five boroughs.
She was a senior staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society in Nassau County, New York from 1976 to 1979. She served as Chief of the Major Litigation Bureau in Nassau County Attorney's Office from 1980 to 1987. She was a Judge of the Nassau County District Court from 1987 to 1991 and a Judge of the Nassau County Court from 1992 to 1993.