DISTRICT ATTORNEY - NEW YORK COUNTY

NEWS RELEASE
September 8, 2009

Contact: Alicia Maxey Greene
212-335-9400

Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau announced today 54 recent law school graduates from 27 law schools are reporting for work at the New York County District Attorney's Office.

Mr. Morgenthau became District Attorney in 1975, when 19 women were employed on the legal staff - less than 10 percent of the total number of Assistant District Attorneys. To date, 261 women are Assistant District Attorneys, and they constitute over 50 percent of the legal staff.

The formal swearing-in of the new Assistant District Attorneys will be postponed for one day. Mr. Morgenthau is in Washington today, attending the investiture ceremonies for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Justice Sotomayor was sworn in as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan 30 years ago, in 1979.

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