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Sheila Abdus-Salaam, United States' First Female Muslim Judge, Found Dead In New York

IANS, 13 Apr, 2017 01:34 PM
    The first black woman appointed to the state’s highest court has been found dead on the bank of the Hudson River. Sheila Abdus-Salaam’s body was discovered along the riverside near Harlem yesterday, a day after she was reported missing, the police said.
     
    The police said her body showed no obvious signs of trauma, and they declined to speculate on the cause of her death. The medical examiner will study her body to try to determine what killed her.
     
    Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, who appointed Abdus-Salaam to the state’s Court of Appeals in 2013, called her a “trailblazing jurist”. “As the first African-American woman to be appointed to the state’s Court of Appeals, she was a pioneer,” Cuomo said.
     
    “Through her writings, her wisdom and her unshakable moral compass, she was a force for good whose legacy will be felt for years to come.”
     
    Chief Judge Janet DiFiore said her colleague would be “missed deeply”. “Her personal warmth, uncompromising sense of fairness and bright legal mind were an inspiration to all of us who had the good fortune to know her,” DiFiore said.Abdus-Salaam, who was 65 years old, graduated from Barnard College and received her law degree from Columbia Law School. 
     
    New York State Bar Association president Claire P Gutekunst said Abdus-Salaam grew up poor in a family of seven children in Washington, DC, and “rose to become one of the seven judges in New York’s highest court, where her intellect, judicial temperament and wisdom earned her wide respect.” 

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