More than three months after the body of New York Court of Appeals Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam was found floating in the Hudson River in upper Manhattan, her death was officially deemed a suicide caused by drowning.

The Office of Chief Medical Examiner announced the findings in a three-sentence news release issued on Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the office said it cannot comment on the details of tests conducted as part of the death investigation.

Abdus-Salaam, 65, was the first black woman to serve on New York's highest court and was appointed there in 2013.