Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the judge who was found dead Wednesday in New York City, made a significant impact on the law despite the relatively short period she spent as the first black woman on the state’s highest court.
Sources confirmed to the Law Journal Thursday that the New York City Police Department was investigating the case as a possible suicide and that her husband, the Rev. Gregory Jacobs, reported her as missing Tuesday.
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