UTICA, N.Y. — Utica University alumna Justice Janet Malone is the commencement speaker for the upcoming undergraduate ceremony on May 12.
Malone, a 1986 graduate, earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and went on to receive her law degree from the City University of New York.
She is an officeholder in the New York Supreme Court, elected in 2016, and is the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court in the Ninth Judicial District of New York.
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Prior to her judicial career, Malone worked as a New York County assistant district attorney, a solo practitioner in Bronx and Westchester counties, a senior associate at a Westchester County law firm, and a support magistrate for the Westchester County Family Court.
This year’s undergraduate commencement will begin at 5 p.m. at the Adirondack Bank Center at the Utica Memorial Auditorium. About 550 undergraduate students are eligible to graduate.