THE HONORABLE SALLIE MANZANET-DANIELS, JD, ’88 Justice Sallie Manzanet-Daniels was born and raised in New York City and is a product of the New York City public schools. She is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College where she earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1985. Justice Manzanet-Daniels is a graduate of Hofstra University School of Law, class of 1988, where she attended on a full scholarship. While at Hofstra Law School, she founded and served as the first president of the Latino Law Students Association from 1987 to 1988. As an alumna, Judge Manzanet-Daniels co-founded and served as the first chair of the LALSA Alumni Scholarship Fund, which continues to raise thousands of dollars for aspiring Latino law students. In 1988 Sallie Manzanet-Daniels began her legal career with the Legal Aid Society in the Bronx as a criminal defense practitioner. Thereafter, Justice Manzanet-Daniels served as principal law clerk for three years respectively to both Justice Frank Torres in Bronx Supreme Court, Criminal Term, and to Justice Luis A. Gonzalez, administrative judge for the 12th Judicial District. Sallie Manzanet-Daniels was elected judge of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Bronx County, in November 1999. Two years later, she was elected and received a Gubernatorial Citation for becoming, at the age of 37, the youngest justice of Hispanic heritage ever elected to the New York State Supreme Court. In October 2009 Governor David Paterson appointed Justice Manzanet-Daniels to the Appellate Division, First Department, thereby making her the first Latina justice in the history of New York state to serve on this court. Throughout her career, Judge Manzanet-Daniels has been committed to her community and has served the needs of her people. Her service has included students of all ages, the elderly, and myriad community organizations servicing all spheres of public life. Sallie Manzanet-Daniels is the proud mother of beautiful 21-year-old daughter Taina and stepmother of Touré Daniels and Asha Daniels-Harris. Since 2006, she has been married to New York’s former Secretary of State Randy A. Daniels.
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