{"id":27517,"date":"2022-11-26T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T10:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=27517"},"modified":"2022-11-26T10:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T10:07:09","slug":"kathy-hochul-to-pick-1-of-7-candidates-to-lead-the-state-judiciary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/27517","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Hochul to pick 1 of 7 Candidates to lead the State Judiciary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk:<\/p>\n<p>According to the NY Post and Spectrum local news, Newly elected Gov. Kathy Hochul will choose a new chief judge from a list of seven names unveiled this week by a state panel to lead New York&#8217;s highest court.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gov. Kathy Hochul said that this will matter for all New Yorkers, the court rules on a tremendous range of issues, from housing protections to business disputes to medical malpractice to voting rights.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to e law, the governor must make her decision between December 8 and December 23 to nominate a permanent replacement for ex-chief Judge Janet DiFiore. Former Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, appointed by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, resigned in July amid a reported judicial conduct investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The State Senate will then have 30 days to confirm or reject her appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the names of seven candidates nominated for chief judge:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anthony Cannataro is currently the acting chief judge after being appointed to the Court of Appeals by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.<\/li>\n<li>Abbe Gluck, a Yale-trained lawyer, and doctor, previously served as the lead counsel for the White House COVID-19 Response under President Biden.<\/li>\n<li>Hector LaSalle heads the busy Appellate Division, Second Department in Brooklyn where his administrative record could catch Hochul\u2019s eye.<\/li>\n<li>Jeffrey Oing, an associate justice at the Appellate Division, First Department in Manhattan, could become the first Asian American to lead the Court of Appeals.<\/li>\n<li>Alicia Ouellette is the dean of Albany Law School, an expert on disability issues, and former assistant solicitor general and assistant state attorney general.<\/li>\n<li>Edwina Richardson-Mendelson could be the first Black woman to be the chief judge after serving on the Court of Claims and overseeing anti-bias initiatives under DiFiore.<\/li>\n<li>Corey Stoughton is a longtime criminal defense attorney who has worked for The Legal Aid Society and the New York Civil Liberties Union.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk: According to the NY Post and Spectrum local news, Newly elected Gov. Kathy Hochul will choose a new chief judge from a list of seven names unveiled this week by a state panel to lead New York&#8217;s highest court. Gov. Kathy Hochul said that this will matter for all New Yorkers, the court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27519,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27517\/revisions\/27519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}