The judge’s notice of retirement, marked personal and confidential, was dated July 31, 2020.
“It was my life-long ambition to wear a robe and to serve the judicial system faithfully, as well as with objectivity and integrity,” it said. “Having achieved this goal, with the will and guidance of God, I must continue to walk in accordance with his plan for me.”
ShawnDya Simpson had been one of the youngest judges to put on robes in New York’s court system when she was elected to the Civil Court in Brooklyn in 2003. Simpson, brought up in an immigrant family in a gritty corner of Brooklyn, had risen to a distinguished career: first as a prosecutor and most recently as a State Supreme Court judge handling the city’s daily tumult of criminal cases.
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