After 25 years as a justice of the Appellate Division, Third Department, Thomas Mercure (See Profile) will leave the court in the next couple of months to become an administrative judge.
Mercure is among five new administrative judges appointed on Jan. 18 by Chief Administrative Judge A. Gail Prudenti (See Profile). The others are Bronx Supreme Court Justice Douglas McKeon (See Profile); Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Lawrence Knipel (See Profile); Queens Acting Supreme Court Justice Joseph Zayas (See Profile); and Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Thomas Adams (See Profile).
Clockwise: Douglas McKeon, Bronx; Lawrence Knipel, Brooklyn; Joseph Zayas, Queens; Thomas Mercure, Third Dept.; and Thomas Adams, Nassau.
