“To ensure New Yorkers have access to a fair, equitable justice system, we need judges who are qualified, honest and reflective of the people of this city,” said Mayor de Blasio. In 2015, Rajeswari was sworn in as a criminal court judge, becoming the first India-born woman to be appointed a judge in the city.
In 2015 New York appointed the first Indian born judge, Raja Rajeswari as a criminal court judge. New Delhi: Chennai-born Raja Rajeswari, who migrated to the United States in 1988, was recently appointed as a criminal court judge in New York City a first for an Indian-origin woman.
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Ann Ryan, Coordinator, NYS Unified Court System, Office of Language Access, Division of Professional and Court Services. The mayor appoints judges to 10-year terms in the New York City Criminal Court and the Family Court within the city. Judge Rao was appointed as an Interim Civil Court Judge in January 2019 and Judge Ambedkar was appointed as an Interim Civil Court judge in May 2018. Judge Raja Rajeswari, Criminal Court of the City of New York, Chair of the NYS Unified Court System Advisory Committee on Language Access. Rajeswari took the oath of office at a ceremony here yesterday along with 27 other judges appointed earlier this month to the Family Court, Criminal Court, and Civil Court, which are part of the New York State Unified Court System. SABANY congratulates Raja Rajeswari on her recent appointment as the first Indian-American female Judge in New York City. Rajeswari, 43, who had immigrated to the US from India as a teenager, previously worked with the Richmond County District Attorney’s Office for her entire career in several bureaus including Criminal Court, Narcotics, Supreme Court, and the Sex Crimes Special Victims Bureau, where she last served as Deputy Chief. Raja Rajeswari became the first South Asian judge appointed in New York in 2015. Anil Singh in 2002, the first elected South Asian judge, and his subsequent appointment to the Appellate Division in 2017. New York, Raja Rajeswari has been sworn-in as a criminal court judge here by Mayor Bill de Blasio, becoming the first India-born woman to be appointed a judge in the New York City. Equally historic was the election of the Hon. Having migrated to the US aged 16, Rajeswari, now 43, worked at the Richmond County DA’s Office her entire career before being sworn in as a judge by NYC mayor Bill de Blasio on April 27.
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