Doris Ling-Cohan

Doris Ling-Cohan is a former justice of the New York State Supreme Court, to which she was elected in 2002; she is the first woman of Asian descent to attain that position. In 2014, Justice Ling-Cohan was appointed to the Appellate Term, First Department. She is the first woman of Asian descent to be appointed to an appellate panel in New York state. Ling-Cohan was born in Chinatown, Manhattan, the daughter of Chinese immigrants; her mother was a seamstress and her father was a laundryman. She is the first person in her family to graduate college.