ALBANY – Eric Holder, the U.S. attorney general, joined a crowd of judicial luminaries at the Court of Appeals Thursday to witness history: the investiture of his law school friend, Sheila Abdus-Salaam, as the first black woman to sit on New York’s highest court.
The first black attorney general said it was obvious back at Columbia Law School in the late 1970s that Abdus-Salaam, then Sheila Turner, was something special, melding a deep intellect with a fun and witty personality.
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