Chalk One Up For Women In Law! Jenny Rivera Nominated to the New York State Court of Appeals

Chalk one up for women in law! Governor Andrew Cuomo yesterday nominated Jenny Rivera, a CUNY Professor of Law, with no prior experience as a judge, to fill a state Court of Appeals seat!

If confirmed by the state Senate, she will become the second Hispanic to sit on the Court of Appeals. Cuomo’s office praised Rivera, 51, as a defender of legal rights of all New Yorkers who would “make our state a fairer, more just place to live.” Rivera was a special deputy state attorney general for civil rights when Cuomo was attorney general in 2007 and 2008. Since 2008, she has been a CUNY Law professor and founder and director of the school’s Center on Latino and Latina Rights and Equality.

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