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Mary Lowe
Mary Johnson Lowe (1924-1999) was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and a justice on the Supreme Court of the State of New York.
After a brief stint on the New York Supreme Court, Lowe was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on May 10, 1978, to a seat vacated by John Cannella; she was confirmed by the Senate on June 23, 1978, and received commission four days later. Lowe was succeeded in this position by Denise Cote. She assumed senior status on July 27, 1991, and served until her death on February 27, 1999.[1]
Early life and edcuation
- Hunter College of the City University of New York, B.A., 1951
- Brooklyn Law School, LL.B., 1954
- Columbia Law School, LL.M., 1955[1]
Professional career
- Private practice, New York City, 1955-1971
- Judge, Criminal Court, New York City, 1971-1973
- Acting Supreme Court Justice, New York County Supreme Court, 1973-1974
- Judge, Bronx County Supreme Court, 1975-1976
- Justice, Supreme Court of New York, 1977-1978[1]
Judicial career
Southern district of New York
After a brief stint on the New York Supreme Court, Lowe was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on May 10, 1978, to a seat vacated by John Cannella; she was confirmed by the Senate on June 23, 1978, and received commission four days later. Lowe was succeeded in this position by Denise Cote. She assumed senior status on July 27, 1991, and served until her death on February 27, 1999.[1]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Mary Lowe's Biography from the Federal Judicial Center.
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by: John Cannella |
Southern District of New York 1978–1991 |
Succeeded by: Denise Cote
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| 1977 |
Ballantine • Bownes • Boyle • Bua • Carr • Clark • Cowan • Daly • Filippine • Higginbotham • Hoeveler • Hug • Johnstone • Kane • Keith • Leval • Logan • MacLaughlin • McKay • Melton • Merritt • Murphy • Nickerson • Oberdorfer • Roszkowski • Roy • Rubin • Sifton • Tang • Vance • Veron | ||
| 1978 |
Arnold • Baker • Boyle • Burns • Campos • Claiborne • Collins • Cook • Devine • Diamond • Duplantier • Edenfield • Friedman • Gonzalez • Greene • Jenkins • Lowe • Mazzone • McMillian • O'Brien • Pfaelzer • Phillips • Pollak • Sand • Shapiro • Simmons • Smith • Sweet • Tanner • Wiseman • Ziegler | ||
| 1979 |
Ackerman • Alarcon • Anderson • Arceneaux • Arnold • Aspen • Beatty • Beer • Belew • Bertelsman • Bilby • N. Black • S. Black • Bloch • Bowen • Brett • Brooks • Brown • Buchmeyer • Bunton • Burciaga • Cabranes • Carr • Carrigan • Castagna • Cire • Clark • Cohn • Conaboy • Cordova • Crabb • Cudahy • Davis • DeAnda • Debevoise • Edwards • Eginton • Ellison • Enslen • O. Evans • T. Evans • Farris • Ferguson • Fletcher • Frye • Garcia • Garza • B. Gibson • H. Gibson • Gierbolini-Ortiz • Giles • Gilliam • Green • Hall • Hastings • Hatchett • Hatfield • Hatter • Hawkins • Henderson • Higby • Hillman • Houck • Howard • Hudspeth • Hungate • F. Johnson • S. Johnson • N. Jones • S. Jones • Karlton • Kazen • Kearse • Keeton • Kehoe • Kennedy • Kidd • King • Kravitch • Loughlin • Martin • McCurn • McDonald • McNaught • McNichols • Mikva • Mitchell • Moran • Murnaghan • Murphy • D. Nelson • D.W. Nelson • Newblatt • Newman • Overton • Paine • Panner • J. Parker • R. Parker • Penn • Perez-Gimenez • Perry • Politz • Poole • Porter • Pregerson • Price • Rambo • Ramirez • Reavley • Redden • E. Reed • S. Reed • Reinhardt • Renner • Robinson • Rothstein • Sachs • Saffels • Sanders • Sarokin • Schroeder • Schwartz • Seay • Senter • Seymour • Shannon • Shaw • Shoob • Skopil • Sloviter • Sofaer • Spellman • Sprouse • Staker • Tate • Taylor • Thompson • Tidwell • Unthank • Vietor • Vining • Wald • Ward • Weinshienk • West • Wicker • Williams • Winder • Woods • Wright • Zobel | ||
| 1980 |
Aguilar • Aldrich • Anderson • Boochever • Breyer • Britt • Cahill • Canby • Carroll • Cerezo • Clemon • S. Ervin • R. Erwin • Getzendanner • Gilmore • Ginsburg • Haltom • Hardy • Henderson • Hobbs • Holschuh • Horton • Howard • Johnson • Keep • Kelly • Kenyon • Kocoras • Marquez • Marshall • Michael • Nixon • Norris • Patel • Polozola • Propst • Quackenbush • Ramsey • Rice • Shadur • Spiegel • Tashima • Thompson • Vela • White • Williams | ||
| 1981 | |||
