Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has appointed Bronx attorney Marvin Ray Raskin to a four-year term on the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

Raskin, a graduate of New York Law School, has been practicing in the Bronx since 1977.

He was previously an assistant district attorney in the Bronx. He is a
member of the New York City mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary and
vice chair of the Central Screening Committee, Assigned Counsel Plan for the
Appellate Division, First Department.

He has received the New York County Lawyers Pro Bono Award for free legal services rendered to the courts and the public and the Extraordinary Service Award by the Criminal Courts Bar Association of Bronx County.

He succeeds Joel Cohen whose second four-year term expired on March 31.

The commission is comprised of 11 members, all of whom serve without pay. The
governor appoints four members (two of whom must be nonlawyers/nonjudges), the chief judge appoints three members (all of whom must be judges) and the four leaders of the state Legislature appoint one each. The commission has a full-time staff operating from New York City, Albany and Rochester.