Thursday, November 30, 2006
Spitzer gets high court nominee list; says race won't be factor
Newsday AP MICHAEL GORMLEY
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Eliot Spitzer says race won't be a factor when the governor-elect considers potential nominees to the state's highest court, which this year lost its only black judge. The list of nominees for the 14-year term released Thursday includes six state judges and one partner in a law firm. They are: Justice Richard Andrias of the Appellate Division in New York City; George Carpinello, a partner in an Albany law firm and a former professor at Albany Law School; Justice Steven W. Fischer of the Appellate Division in Queens; Justice Theodore T. Jones Jr. of the state Supreme Court in New York City; Justice Thomas E. Mercure of the Appellate Division in Albany; Judge Juanita Bing Newton of the state Court of Claims; and Justice James A. Yates of state Supreme Court in New York City. Click here for the rest of this article andy
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Eliot Spitzer says race won't be a factor when the governor-elect considers potential nominees to the state's highest court, which this year lost its only black judge. The list of nominees for the 14-year term released Thursday includes six state judges and one partner in a law firm. They are: Justice Richard Andrias of the Appellate Division in New York City; George Carpinello, a partner in an Albany law firm and a former professor at Albany Law School; Justice Steven W. Fischer of the Appellate Division in Queens; Justice Theodore T. Jones Jr. of the state Supreme Court in New York City; Justice Thomas E. Mercure of the Appellate Division in Albany; Judge Juanita Bing Newton of the state Court of Claims; and Justice James A. Yates of state Supreme Court in New York City. Click here for the rest of this article andy
