State Supreme Court Justice Con G. Cholakis moved a step closer to sitting on a federal bench when the Senate Judiciary Committee approved his nomination Thursday in Washington, D.C.
Cholakis, who lives in North Greenbush, has been recommended by U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato for the U.S. District Court for the Northeastern District of New York.
In the past two decades, Cholakis has gone from an assistant prosecutor to Rensselaer County district attorney to county court judge and, finally, to state Supreme Court judge, a post he has held since 1978.
Cholakis will fill the vacancy created when Judge Roger Minerjoined the Second Circuit U.S. Court of …
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