Albany Update: JCC Nominations

Cuomo Names Picks for Judicial Compensation Commission

Governor Andrew Cuomo today announced the following nominations to the Judicial Compensation Commission.

Bill Thompson will serve as Chair of the Judicial Compensation Commission. Currently, Thompson is the Chief Administrative Officer/Senior Managing Director at Siebert Brandford Shank & Co. In addition, he is the Chair of the Battery Park City Authority.

From 2002 to 2009, Thompson served as Comptroller of New York City. Before being elected to public office, he was appointed to be Brooklyn's representative to the New York City Board of Education, where he later became President for five terms.

In 1993, he was the Senior Vice President at an investment firm. From 1983-1992, Thompson was the Deputy Borough President of Brooklyn. He is a graduate of New York City Public Schools and Tufts University.

Rick Cotton is the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of NBC-Universal and Chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Coalition against Counterfeiting and Piracy. Cotton has been at NBC for more than 20 years, serving as General Counsel except for his service as president and Managing Director of CNBC Europe from 2000 to 2004.

Prior to NBC, during the 1980's, he practiced law in Washington, DC, and then served as the President and CEO of HCX, Inc., a Washington-based management company. During the late 1970's, Cotton held several high-level positions in the U.S. Departments of Health, Education, and Welfare and Energy.

Bill Mulrow is the Senior Managing Director at Blackstone. He has also been Chairman of Sterling Suffolk Racecourse LLC since August 2007. He was a Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank in New York City, the Municipal Assistance Corporation and the United Nations Development Corporation.

In addition, Mulrow has served on the Boards of several academic institutions including the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the Maxwell School for Public Affairs at Syracuse University and the Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx. He earned his BA from Yale University and his MPA from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Established by Governor Paterson in 2010, the Judicial Compensation Commission is an independent entity tasked with examining, evaluating and recommending adequate pay for New York State judges. The Commission is comprised of seven appointed members- three are nominated by the Governor, two by the New York State Chief Judge, one by the President Pro-tem of the New York State Senate and one by the Speaker of the Assembly.