FIFTH ANNUAL WALL OF FAME
GALA
FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015 – GLEN SANDERS MANSION
Honoree:
Hon. Victoria A. Graffeo
Senior Associate Judge
NY State Court of Appeals
Victoria
A. Graffeo, Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, was
born in Rockville Centre, New York in 1952.
Educated in the Schenectady and Guilderland public
school systems, she graduated from the State University
College at Oneonta in 1974 and received her J.D. from
Albany Law School of Union University in 1977. She
engaged in private practice from 1978 to 1982, and
entered government service in 1982 as assistant counsel
to the New York State Division of Alcoholism and Alcohol
Abuse. She began employment in the State Legislature as
counsel to Assembly Minority Leader Pro Tempore Kemp
Hannon in 1984 and served as chief counsel to Assembly
Minority Leader Clarence D. Rappleyea, Jr. from 1989
through 1994.
On January 1, 1995, she was appointed Solicitor General
for the State of New York by Attorney General Dennis C.
Vacco and served in that capacity until appointed, in
September 1996, by Governor George E. Pataki to fill a
vacancy in the State Supreme Court, Third Judicial
District. She was elected that November to a full term
as Justice of the State Supreme Court and, in March
1998, became an Associate Justice of the Appellate
Division, Third Department. Her appointment to the Court
of Appeals by Governor George E. Pataki was confirmed by
the State Senate on November 29, 2000. She currently
resides in Guilderland, New York. |
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