Former Brooklyn US Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf was formally inducted as a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York yesterday before a standing-room-only crowd of legal luminaries.
Mauskopf, the child of Holocaust survivors, said she was particularly proud to be appointed because of her family history.
“They had no trial, they had no jury, they had no judge,” she said, referring to family members who died in Nazi concentration camps, adding that, as a judge, she would keep the “lessons of the Holocaust and the sacrifice of my family at the forefront of my mind.”
Her remarks were preceded by speeches by Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau, Chief Eastern District Judge Raymond Dearie and Brooklyn US Attorney Benton Campbell.
Mauskopf served as US attorney from 2002 until she took the bench last October.
The US Attorney’s Office under her tenure won convictions against a pair of corrupt detectives who killed for the Mafia; and a gang-banger who shot two undercover cops, which resulted in the first federal death sentence in the state in more than 50 years.
Mauskopf was nominated to the federal bench by President Bush in 2006.