[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 23 (Wednesday, February 6, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E139-E140]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          CELEBRATION AND RECOGNITION OF JUDGE MARY V. ROSADO

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                         HON. ADRIANO ESPAILLAT

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 6, 2019

  Mr. ESPAILLAT. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize and celebrate 
the elevation of Judge Mary V. Rosado to the New York State Supreme 
Court, the highest-ranking court in the State of New York.
  Judge Rosado is a lifelong resident of Manhattan and was raised in 
the Jefferson Houses in East Harlem in New York's 13th Congressional 
District.
  From an early age, Judge Rosado was an omnipresent contributor to the 
local community organizing daytime summer camps in East Harlem. Before 
starting her legal career, she was a committed educator in the New York 
City Public Schools for seven years teaching Social Studies and 
English.
  As the oldest of ten children born to Puerto Rican migrants to the 
U.S., Judge Rosado has committed herself to scholastic achievement as a 
graduate of Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) 
where she received her B.A. and M.A. and Fullbright Scholar in Cairo, 
Egypt before receiving her J.D. from Columbia University Law School.
  Judge Rosado through her professional and pro-bono work has become an 
acclaimed community activist and is the Founder and President of 
Friends of the West 59th Street Recreation Center Inc., Puerto Rican 
Bar Association, Dominican Bar Association, Women's Bar Association, 
Harlem School of the Arts, Inc., Amsterdam Action Community 
Association, Dominican Women's Caucus, and proud participant in the 
Mentor-Guardian ad litem program with the Civil Court of the City of 
New York.
  Judge Rosado has forged a thirty-year legal career which epitomized 
with the creation of

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her very own practice in 1998, the Law Office of Mary V. Rosado. Since 
then, she has served as Manhattan Civil Court judge and now ascends to 
serve in the First District of the New York State Supreme Court.

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