Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Cuomo Appoints Rowan Wilson to Top State Court, Making Him Second African-American There

 

By Glenn Blain

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo has tapped Rowan Wilson, a Harvard Law School graduate with 30 years of legal experience at a Manhattan law firm, to fill a vacant seat in the state's top court, the administration announced early Monday.

Wilson, a Democrat and a partner in the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, would become the Court of Appeals' second African-American member if his nomination is approved by the state Senate. It would be the first time in state history that the top court has had two African-American members serving at the same time, administration officials said. 

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Source: The New York Daily News (via The  Empire Report)

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