Politics on the Hudson

Ossining’s first female judge has been named by Gov. David Paterson to be a state Supreme Court justice in the lower Hudson Valley, Rebecca Baker reports. Ossining Town Justice Francesca E. Connolly, 51, was chosen to fill a Westchester-based state court seat vacated by Justice Jonathan Lippman, now chief judge of the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals.

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