Seeking Purpose: Supreme
Court Justice Sharon M.J. Gianelli
Tuesday
April 12, students came together to have lunch and meet Supreme Court Justice
Sharon M.J. Gianelli, who was elected to a fourteen-year term on the New York
State Supreme Court in November 2014. As an alumnus of Syracuse University’s
School of Social Work and Brooklyn Law School, Justice Gianelli has planted her
roots within the justice system, specifically with the Adolescent Diversion Program
for Nassau County. This was especially near to her heart because this was one
of only nine pilot projects in the state that combined social work and the law
when handling adolescent misdemeanor and felony cases.