The Gender Fairness Committee of the 12th Judicial District held a belated women’s history month celebration Thursday at the Bronx County Courthouse.
From left, New York City police officer Elaine D’Arrigo; retired Bronx Supreme Court Justice Richard Lee Price; Mount St. Ursula students Mary Lou De Jesus, Imani Maliti, Natasha Rojas, and Jeniah Villanueva and Harry S. Truman High School students Cassidy Hurd and Aliyah Quiles; Bronx YMCA executive director Sharlene Denise Brown; court attorney-referee and chair of the Gender Fairness Committee Josephine Bastone; senior Bronx Surrogate Court clerk Mary Murray; senior Bronx Civil Court clerk Nanette Mack; court analyst and women’s history month program co-chair Carol Brumley-McManus; and New York police officer Brandi Alexander. The six students, all high school juniors, received the committee’s EVOLVE award for rising above daunting circumstances in their lives. Brown received the committee’s woman of achievement award, while Murray, Mack, and the two NYPD officers were recognized as women of distinction for their job performance or for overcoming odds.
