With her appointment to the Appellate Term, First Department, Justice Doris Ling-Cohan became the first woman of Asian descent to be appointed to an appellate panel in New York state.
April 01, 2014 at 12:00 AM
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Justice Doris Ling-Cohan has been appointed to the Appellate Term, First Department. She is the first woman of Asian descent to be appointed to an appellate panel in New York state and in 2002 became the first woman of Asian descent to be elected to the Supreme Court.
Ling-Cohan was elected to New York City Civil Court in 1995, from the Chinatown district. In 2005, she became the first trial judge in the state to decide in favor of marriage equality in Hernandez v. Robles.
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