At My Sister’s Hamptons Engagement Party, My Mother Handed Me an Apron and Said, “Make Yourself Useful.” I Washed the Dishes Without Arguing-Until the Groom’s Father Walked In, Put a Hand to His Chest, and Said the Name My Family Had Never Respected – News

me that working for the state was a refuge for people too weak to survive in the real business world. I never corrected them. I never told them that my years of relentless hard work had culminated in being appointed as a New York State Supreme Court justice.

I never mentioned that I presided over multi-million dollar commercial fraud cases or that powerful continue reading …