Justice Sallie Manzanet-Daniels ‘85 Elected to MMC Board of Trustees

Sallie Manzanet-Daniels ’85, Trustee of Marymount Manhattan College

A graduate of the 2,000-student liberal arts college located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Manzanet-Daniels, born and raised in New York City, was educated in the New York City public school system. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Marymount Manhattan in psychology in 1985, and then went on to Hofstra University School of Law, on full scholarship, to earn her J.D. in 1988. While at Hofstra, she founded and served as the first president of the Latino Law Students Association. 

Manzanet-Daniels began her legal career with the Legal Aid Society in the Bronx as a criminal defense practitioner. Thereafter, she served as Principal Law Clerk for three years respectively to both Justice Frank Torres in Bronx Supreme Court, Criminal Term, and to Justice Luis A. Gonzalez, Administrative Judge for the 12th Judicial District. 

In November 1999, Manzanet-Daniels was elected as Judge of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Bronx County. In November 2001, she was elected and received a Gubernatorial Citation for becoming, at the age of 37, the youngest justice of Hispanic heritage ever elected to the New York State Supreme Court. 

In October 2009, Governor David Paterson appointed Manzanet-Daniels to the Appellate Division, First Department, thereby making her the first Latina justice in the history of New York State to serve on this Court. 

Manzanet-Daniels has one daughter, and is married to former New York State Secretary of State, Randy A. Daniels. 

Marymount Manhattan College is an urban, independent, liberal arts college. The mission of the College is to educate a socially and economically diverse student body by fostering intellectual achievement and personal growth and by providing opportunities for career development.

Published: April 11, 2011