“Many of the domestic violence victims have been South Asians, Sri Lankans.”Ĭurrently, there are two male judges of Indian descent in civil court settings – Jaya Madhavan on the New York City Housing Court in Bronx County, and Anil C. “That has always stayed with me.”Īs a prosecuting attorney in New York, she has come across numerous cases of spousal and child abuse within the South Asian community in New York, Rajeswari said. Rajeswari told ethnic Desi Talk she had observed gender inequality even before coming to the US when some of her “brilliant” girlfriends in India were married off at the age of 14 and 15. Edited and additional reporting by Adam Rizvi: Manavi, a South Asian women’s advocacy organization is dedicated to empowering the woman with an objective to raise awareness of women’s right, bring a change in society and to end all types of abuse and violence against women and girls. She hopes to use her new position to improve the judicial system by encouraging interpreters to have more access to aid immigrants, the news site said. Manavi, group posing with first South Asian-American Judge Raja Rajeswari. Rajeswari, who has worked at the district attorney’s office for 16 years, has been the deputy chief of the Special Victims Unit for more than four years. She is the first South Asian female judge to be appointed a judge to a criminal court New York City.Prior to her appointment, she served as the deputy chief of the Special Victims Unit for the Richmond County District Attorneys Office for 4 years.In total. “I told the mayor this is not only my American Dream, but it shows another girl from a far away country that this is possible.”
“For someone like me, an immigrant who comes from India, I’m beyond grateful,” she said. It’s way beyond what I imagined,” she was quoted as saying by, a Staten Island news website. Rajeswari, 43, an assistant district attorney at the Richmond County District Attorney’s office, who was nominated to the bench by Mayor Bill de Blasio, formally assumed her new office Tuesday. Chennai born Raja Rajeswari, who came to America when she was 16, has become the first person of Indian descent to be named as a criminal court judge in New York City.
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