3 Black women judges take bench in Appellate Term for first time in history
For the first time in history, three Black women justices together heard cases in the Appellate Term, Second Department on Wednesday.
Queens Associate Justice ChereƩ Buggs, Associate Justice Wavny Toussaint and Presiding Justice Michelle Weston, all three of whom are Black women, made history Wednesday, hearing Appellate Term cases together from the bench.
To mark the occasion, the judicial panel was held inside the Appellate Division, Second Department courthouse in Brooklyn Heights, rather than in the Appellate Termās courthouse on nearby Livingston Street.
In the days leading up to the panel, Buggs, who was elected as a Queens Supreme Court justice in 2016, told the Eagle that she was āextremely excitedā to be part of the historic panel.