Gov. Cuomo to nomate openly gay judge to New York Court of Appeals for first time

Contents:

• PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON N.Y. HIGH COURT, DI AT 61
• HANLON MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SUPREME COURT JUDGE
• FIRED GAY JUDGE BREAKS SILENCE, PLEDG TO CONTUE ONLYFANS
• FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE CONFIRMED FOR NEW YORK’S HIGHT COURT
• NEW YORK’S HIGHT URT WEL FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE
• FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE TAPPED TO LEAD NY APPEALS COURT
• NY JUDGE ACCED OF MAKG RACIST, ANTI-GAY REMARKS URT
• FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON NEW YORK HIGH URT, DI
• 1ST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE AD AT 72
• PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON NEW YORK HIGH COURT, DI
• GROUNDBREAKG GAY JUDGE ON NEW YORK’S HIGHT COURT DI AT 61
• GOV. CUOMO TO NOMATE OPENLY GAY JUDGE TO NEW YORK COURT OF APPEALS FOR FIRST TIME
• JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU

PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON N.Y. HIGH COURT, DI AT 61

Feman, the first openly gay jurist to serve on New York State’s hight urt, the Court of Appeals, died on Wednday at a Manhattan hospal. “Certaly my entire reer has been about promotg equal accs and equal jtice for all, ” Judge Feman rpond, alludg to his own experience as a gay man, “and I hope I add to the diversy of perspectiv that the urt nsirs.

HANLON MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SUPREME COURT JUDGE

He was sworn on June 21, 2017, durg Gay Pri a statement after the ath, Governor Cuomo lled the judge a “iend and role mol to untls L. He beme so taken by French culture that he would take his niec and nephews to Paris on their 16th worked as a legal tern Upper Manhattan as a Columbia unrgrad, he attend the Universy of Mnota Law School on a full scholarship and helped found an associatn of gay stunts there. More about Sam RobertsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 19 of the New York edn wh the headle: Pl Feman, 61, Trailblazg Gay Appellate Judge.

FIRED GAY JUDGE BREAKS SILENCE, PLEDG TO CONTUE ONLYFANS

She was elected last November to the New York State Supreme Court Mayville, where she beme the first openly gay judge the 8th Judicial District. It's nice to be the first, but what I want this to mean is that, there's gog to be a lot of other openly gay people elected to a variety of posns, " said Hanlon. "When I first started as an attorney, you uldn't say you were gay bee you wouldn't get hired.

You didn't say you were gay or who you lived wh, or who you loved, bee you didn't want to get fired, " she said. Cuomo named the first openly gay judge to the New York Court of Appeals last week, the news thrilled gay rights advot, many of whom had been disappoted by the state’s hight had bter memori of the urt’s 2006 cisn Hernanz v.

Feman, an associate jtice of the Appellate Divisn of the State Supreme Court Manhattan, to fill the seat left open by the ath of Judge Sheila Abd-Salaam April was a watershed for gay New Yorkers.

FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE CONFIRMED FOR NEW YORK’S HIGHT COURT

”“I n’t stop thkg back to 2006 when I argued the Hernanz se and we lost such a vastatg way, ” said Roberta Kaplan, a proment gay rights lawyer who has known Jtice Feman sce the late 1990s. “It was om this experience that I first me to tly appreciate how beg a lawyer is a helpg profsn and that helpg people n be a source of great satisfactn, ” he told the earned a full scholarship to the Universy of Mnota Law School, where he was a founr of an associatn of gay stunts. Kaplan, the lawyer, law school, Jtice Feman anized gay stunts.

He was active the gay rights movement New York Cy the 1990s, servg as the print of the L.

He threw out a lawsu that tried to block the velopment through a landmark signatn, sayg the firefighter who brought the actn lacked also ma wav 2007 when he took a stand agast the sealg of rerds civil s, even when both sis want to keep documents secret after a civil rights advot, however, Jtice Feman’s experienc as a gay man matter almost as much as his legal acumen. Person on the bench who brgs the life experienc, ” said San Sommer of the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, who has argued four gay rights s before the urt.

NEW YORK’S HIGHT URT WEL FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE

”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 22 of the New York edn wh the headle: State Senators Confirm First Openly Gay Judge For New York’s Top Court. The state Senate nfirmed Pl Feman to the state Court of Appeals 2017, makg him the first openly gay judge on the state’s hight urt. In 2011, Alison Nathan beme the send openly gay woman to serve on the feral bench, after Judge Deborah Batts, and what is arguably the untry’s most fluential jurisdictn.

Pl Oetken beme the first openly gay man on the feral bench. In 2007, former Assemblyman Matthew Tone beme the first openly gay public official elected on Staten Island, New York Cy’s most polilly nservative borough. Last year, he ma history aga as the first openly gay Surrogate’s Court judge elected the state.

FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE TAPPED TO LEAD NY APPEALS COURT

“Who would have thought an openly gay, liberal, Democrat like me would w an island-wi race?

Feman beme the first openly gay judge nfirmed to the New York Court of Appeals. Senator Brad Hoylman, one of five openly gay members of New York’s State Legislature who urged the ernor to appot an LGBT person to the Court of Appeals, lled the nfirmatn “an important perspective that has been missg on the urt.

NY JUDGE ACCED OF MAKG RACIST, ANTI-GAY REMARKS URT

“It at a time when gay rights are unr asslt om Washgton, DC and LGBT people and their fai feel unr siege. Two of the seven ndidat remend to take the open seat were openly gay.

Succeedg the first female pridg jtice of the same bench, the woman appoted Monday to lead an upstate New York appeals urt marks the first openly gay judge to hold the tle state history. (CN) - Succeedg the first female pridg jtice of the same bench, the woman appoted Monday to lead an upstate New York appeals urt marks the first openly gay judge to hold the tle state history.

The New York Associatn of Lbian and Gay Judg held s annual dner on January 17th at the Try Place Rtrant lower Manhattan. A New York judge allegedly ma vile bigoted remarks while on the job — cludg sayg homosexualy is an “abomatn, ” claimg Hispanic people have “ceful tras” and accg her lleagu of sleepg their way to the top, new urt papers claim.

FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON NEW YORK HIGH URT, DI

The IG found that Thompson lled four other judg “gay racist f—-ts” who were “all f—kg each other” and “tryg to me and get me, ” acrdg to the papers filed by the Office of Court Admistratn as seeks to uphold the spensn.

“I hate the gay whe men … beg gay is an abomatn to mankd, ” Thompson, who was elected to a 14-year term 2018, allegedly said of other judg. The OCA’s urt papers lay out dozens of other homophobic, racist or otherwise appropriate and offensive ments that Thompson allegedly ma before she was benched by New York Chief Admistrative Judge Lawrence Marks. Brooklyn Surrogate’s judge allegedly ma homophobic and racist ments about people while Harriet.

1ST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE AD AT 72

She was also acced of meang urt workers’ looks, swearg repeatedly and g racist and anti-gay slurs. The appallg ments clud once sayg a gay judge was “fat now, om all of the evil of what he’s dog” and cricizg a black judge for havg blond hair, the OCA claimed. Feman, the first openly gay person to serve on New York’s hight urt, died a week after steppg down due to a health issue.

(AP) — Pl Feman, the first openly gay judge to serve on New York’s hight urt, died recently after steppg down bee of his health, state officials announced Wednday. Febary 3, 2020, 4:14 PMThe first openly gay judge appoted to a U.

PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON NEW YORK HIGH COURT, DI

“I would never say that she threw out there that she is a gay judge.

In the early 1980s, Kahn, then a partner at Anrson Kill & Olick, helped form a aln that brought together 50 gay anizatns wh different agendas. At the time, the only place where the muny uld gather was a gay bar, and no medil or legal servic were tailored to their needs. The buildg, now The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center on W.

What to KnowPl Feman, the first openly gay judge to serve on New York’s hight urt, died recently after steppg down bee of his health, state officials announced Wednday. Pl Feman, the first openly gay judge to serve on New York’s hight urt, died recently after steppg down bee of his health, state officials announced Wednday.

GROUNDBREAKG GAY JUDGE ON NEW YORK’S HIGHT COURT DI AT 61

One week after abptly retirg om New York's Court of Appeals due to illns, Judge Pl Feman, the first openly gay person to serve on the state's hight urt has died. MANHATTAN (CN) — One week after abptly retirg om New York's Court of Appeals due to illns, Judge Pl Feman, the first openly gay person to serve on the state's hight urt has died. “The first openly gay person to serve on the Court of Appeals, he was a lifelong champn of fairns, progrs, equaly, and jtice - the very rnerston of our state's history and our untry's mocracy.

GOV. CUOMO TO NOMATE OPENLY GAY JUDGE TO NEW YORK COURT OF APPEALS FOR FIRST TIME

Feman also served as mentor to younger generatns of gay jurists through LGBT Bar NY’s Hank Henry Judicial Fellowship Program, which aimed to ensure that openly gay and lbian ndidat were nsired for appoted judicial posns. Cuomo said he'll nomate the first openly gay judge to serve on New York's hight said Thursday he would name Manhattan Appellate Judge Pl Feman to fill the Court of Appeals seat left vant by the April ath of Judge Sheila Abd-Salaam. Bonacic lled Feman "very qualified, " but strsed he still need to review his se nomatg Feman, Cuomo fulfilled the wish of a group of openly gay state lawmakers who wrote to Cuomo earlier this month argug that was time for New York's hight urt to have an openly gay jtice.

Unsurprisgly, Mchell oppos gay rights and said a Supreme Court brief that Obergefell v.

JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU