President Barack Obama has nominated Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Analisa Torres (See Profile) and former Eastern District prosecutor Valerie Caproni, the deputy general counsel at Northrup Grumman, for slots on the Southern District bench.
Torres, a 1984 graduate of Columbia Law School who sits in the Criminal Term, was first tapped for the bench in 2000. After two years at Criminal Court, she served in Civil Court from 2003 to 2004. She was named an acting Supreme Court justice in the Bronx in 2004 and moved to Manhattan Supreme in 2010. She was elected to the Supreme Court Nov. 6.
