- "Local
Bars Celebrate New Brooklyn Surrogate"
-
- Local bar
leaders gathered on Wednesday, January 29th,
2006,
- to
celebrate the recent elevation of Judge
Margarita López Torres
- to
the bench as the new Surrogate for Kings County.
-
- Judge
López Torres recently made history as the first
person
- of
Latino descent to win county-wide election in
Brooklyn.
- She
is also the first person of Latino descent
- to
serve as a Surrogate in the State
of New York.
-
- The
reception was hosted at the offices of the law
firm of
- Mayer,
Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP (MBR&M).
-
- Pictured
are (l to r):
- Mauricio
Paez, National Vice
President of Regions of the Hispanic
National Bar Association (HNBA);
- Janet
Alvarez, President of the Puerto Rican
Bar Association;
- former
Congressman Herman Badillo;
- Judge
López Torres;
- Judge
Faviola Soto, Acting New York State Supreme
Court Justice;
- Lourdes M. Ventura,
President of the Latino Lawyers Association
of Queens County;
- William
Malpica of MBR&M;
- Elsa
Marte-Hampton, President of the Dominican Bar
Association;
- Nelson
A. Castillo, National President
of the HNBA.
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