Hector LaSalle

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  1. This is not the first time the CJN has been accused of purposely frustrating a governor's stated intent to appoint a particular category of judge or justice. When former governor Mario Cuomo, who had promised during his campaigns that he would appoint a woman as chief judge, had the opportunity during the early 1980s to appoint a new chief judge, the commission returned a list of exclusively male candidates. [22]

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Hector LaSalle
Presiding Justice of the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department
Assumed office
2021