FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN FEMALE JUDGE IN US FOUND DEAD AND FLOATING IN A RIVER

Sheila Abdus-Salaam

Sheila Abdus- Salaam , the first African - American female Muslim judge in the United States is dead .

Her body was found floating in the Hudson River Wednesday afternoon .
She was 65 years old.

According to the New York Post, Abdus- Salaam was discovered by witnesses who alerted the authorities .

The deceased , an associate judge in the US Court of Appeals , had been reported missing from her home earlier in the day , before being discovered dead in the river .

It was reported by NY Times that the police said there were no signs of trauma on her body as she was fully clothed when discovered . It was also reported that investigators found no signs of criminality .

Abdus- Salaam graduated from Columbia Law School and started her career as a staff attorney at East Brooklyn Legal Services before she was elected to the Supreme Court in 1993 . In 2013 , New York Governor , Andrew Cuomo appointed her to the Court of Appeals in 2013 .

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