The Court of Appeals on Thursday appointed Cara Brousseau to be the first-ever female state reporter for the New York State Law Reporting Bureau, where she'll succeed William Hooks in the position.

Brousseau will be responsible for the bureau's operations, including the regular publishing of decisions by the appellate courts and, sometimes, trial courts, as well as producing more than 17 bound volumes each year.

It's a position she's not unfamiliar with; Brousseau has been the deputy state reporter at the bureau since February 2017. Before that, she spent nearly two years as the assistant state reporter.

Brousseau has been practicing law for two decades now, after graduating cum laude from Albany Law School in 1999. She was admitted to the New York Bar later that year. She entered the legal community as an associate attorney for Iseman, Cunningham, Riester & Hyde in Albany, where she worked in labor law, civil rights cases and mental hygiene law.

She left the firm to clerk for former Court of Appeals Associate Judge Susan Phillips Read. Read served on the high court for 12 years after being appointed in 2003. Brousseau clerked for her during the first four years of her tenure on the bench.

Brousseau went on to serve as deputy executive director and counsel for the New York State Board of Law Examiners, which administers the bar exam and operates under the Court of Appeals. She oversaw litigation involving the board and supervised candidate misconduct investigations.

She held that position until she became assistant state reporter in April 2015. Brousseau is a past president of the Capital District Women's Bar Association and a member of the Appellate Division, Third Department Committees on Character and Fitness.

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