Former Brooklyn Legal Services lawyer sworn in to New York’s highest court
The newest member to the New York Court of Appeals, New York State’s highest court, was sworn in at noon Thursday in Albany. Sheila Abdus-Salaam is the first black woman on the Court of Appeals.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, a longtime friend of Abdus-Salaam from their days as students at Columbia Law School in the 1970s, attended the swearing-in ceremony.
Abdus-Salaam began her legal career as an attorney with the East Brooklyn Legal Services and later became a Manhattan Civil Court judge before obtaining a seat in the Appellate Division, First Department.