Media Advisory
September 8, 2005
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Contact: Matt
Kovary
(212) 382-6655 |
NEW YORK CITY BAR RATES PRIMARY CANDIDATES FOR CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, SURROGATE'S COURT, KINGS COUNTY AND NEW YORK COUNTY, AND DISTRICT ATTORNEY, KINGS COUNTY AND NEW YORK COUNTY
New York - The Association of the Bar of the City of New
York has evaluated candidates running in the September 13 th Democratic Party
primary elections for Civil Court in Kings County , Surrogate’s Court
in Kings County and New York County , and District Attorney in Kings County
and New York County .
In examining candidates for the judiciary, the Committee
on the Judiciary of the Association seeks to determine whether the candidate
possesses the requisite qualifications for judicial office, such as integrity,
impartiality, intellectual ability, knowledge of the law, industriousness,
and judicial demeanor and temperament.
The Committee advances two ratings:
APPROVED and NOT APPROVED. Candidates rated APPROVED have affirmatively demonstrated
qualifications necessary for the performance of the duties of the court for
which they are being considered.
The Committee's conclusions are as follows
(the Committee will release its conclusions as to the remaining primary candidates
when its evaluations are concluded):
Kings County
Civil Court
Countywide |
|
| Sylvia Ash |
Approved |
| Philip Grant |
Not approved by reason of the candidate's failure to
affirmatively demonstrate that he possesses the requisite qualifications
for the court for which he is a candidate. |
| Norma Jean Jennings |
Approved |
| Sandra Roper |
Not approved by reason of the candidate's failure to
affirmatively demonstrate that he possesses the requisite qualifications
for the court for which he is a candidate. |
3rd District |
|
| Martin S. Needelman |
Approved |
| Richard Velasquez |
Not approved by reason of the candidate's failure to
affirmatively demonstrate that he possesses the requisite qualifications
for the court for which he is a candidate. |
6th District |
|
| Cynthia Boyce |
Approved |
| Michael Gerstein |
Not approved by reason of the candidate's failure to
affirmatively demonstrate that he possesses the requisite qualifications
for the court for which he is a candidate. |
| Ingrid Joseph |
Approved |
| Surrogate’s Court |
|
| Hon. Diana Johnson |
Approved |
| Hon. Lawrence Knipel |
Approved |
| Hon. Margarita Lopez Torres |
Approved |
| District Attorney |
|
| Charles J. Hynes |
Approved |
| Arnold Kriss |
Approved |
| Mark Peters |
Approved |
| John Sampson |
Not approved by reason of the candidate's failure to
affirmatively demonstrate that he possesses the requisite qualifications
for the court for which he is a candidate. |
New York County
| Surrogate’s
Court |
|
| Kristin Booth Glen |
Approved |
| Eve Rachel Markewich |
Approved |
| District Attorney |
|
| Robert M. Morgenthau |
Approved |
| Leslie Crocker Snyder |
Approved |
About the Association
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (www.nycbar.org) was founded
in 1870, and since then has been dedicated to maintaining the high ethical
standards of the profession, promoting reform of the law, and providing service
to the profession and the public.
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