Supreme Court Screening Panel

On July 8th, the New York County Democratic Committee announced the formation of an Independent Screening Panel to report on candidates for the nomination of the Democratic Party for three (3) vacancies on the New York State Supreme Court, 1st Judicial District (New York County), which will be filled in the November general election. The heads of numerous bar associations, community organizations and law schools nominated the following members to the panel, which will be directed to report a total of no more than the nine (9) most highly qualified candidates for the three (3) vacancies:

Designating Organization
First Name
Last Name
The New York City Bar Mitchell Auslander
Association of Black Women Attorneys Tamika Bent
Puerto Rican Bar Association David B. Cabrera
LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York Jason Davidson
Dominican Bar Association Brent English
Columbian Lawyers Association Elizabeth Filardi
Jewish Lawyers Guild Norman Flitt
Brehon Law Society James P. Gilroy
Cardozo Law School Sanford Hausler
West Side
SRO Law Project
Luis Henriquez Carrero
NAACP Mid Manhattan Branch Jennifer Jones
Womens Bar- NYC Chapter Eve Jordonne
Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater New York Karen Kim
Asian Americans for Equality Steve Madra
GMHC Mona Moayad
Asian American Bar
Association of New York
Yasu Saito
New York State Trial Lawyers Assn. Josh Silber
Metropolitan Black Bar Association Asha Smith
CUNY Law Nicole Smith
Commercial Litigation Section, NYSBA Vincent J. Syracuse
Urban League Raquel A. Thompson
Association of Legal Aid Attorneys Munonyedi Ugbode
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Adam John Wolff