Not exact matches
Mueller has also recruited James Quarles, who specialized in campaign - finance research for the Watergate task force, according to Wired; Michael Dreeben, considered by some to be «the best criminal
appellate lawyer in America»; and Aaron Zebley, a
former senior counselor in the DOJ's National Security
Division specializing in cybersecurity.
He has already made two appointments: Jenny Rivera, a Latina and law professor, (replacing Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, his father's appointee and the first Hispanic judge on the court); and Sheila Abdus - Salaam, an associate justice in the
appellate division, who is the first black woman to serve on the court, (she replaced the late Theodore Jones, an African - American appointee of
former Gov. Eliot Spitzer).
RIP Joseph Suozzi, father of
former Nassau County Executive - turned - congressional - candidate Tom Suozzi and also the
former mayor of Glen Cove who served two terms as a state Supreme Court justice and was later appointed an
appellate division justice.
Skelos also appointed
former state
appellate division judge Joseph Covello.
He's the
former president of the New York State Bar Association, has served on numerous legal councils and committees, including the state First Department
appellate screening committee, and is the current chief judge's Commercial
Division Advisory Council.
EDWIN STERN, a
former New Jersey
appellate division judge who earlier this year completed a temporary assignment on the New Jersey Supreme Court, is now counsel at Gibbons in the firm's business and commercial litigation department.
The
former judge served nearly 23 years at the trial court level and in the
appellate division.