New York – When Sheila Abdus-Salaam agreed to speak this month at an alumni gathering at Columbia Law School, it was business as usual for someone in demand as the first black woman to serve on New York’s highest court.
NEW YORK — Police say the death of New York State Appeals Court Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam is being treated as “suspicious” since they’re still trying to determine her exact manner of death.
A pioneering judge, who became the first Muslim woman in US history to serve on the bench, was found dead Wednesday — washed up on the Manhattan side of the Hudson River, sources said.