strike on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border Saul Weprin (B.A. 1948), member of the New York State Assembly 1973–1994; Speaker 1991–1994 Jumaane Williams (B.A. 2001, M.A. 2005), Democratic politician, member of the New York City Council Lynne Williams (M.A. 1975), Maine politician and former chairperson of the Maine Green Independent Party Maxine Wolfe (B.A. 1961), activist for AIDS, civil rights, lesbian rights, and reproductive rights Stanley Yolles (B.A. 1939), psychiatrist head of the National Institute of Mental Health from 1964 to 1970 Judges Noach Dear (B.S. 1975), New York Supreme Court judge Patricia DiMango (B.A. 1973), television personality and former justice of the Supreme court of Kings County, New York David Friedman (B.A. 1971), Associate Justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department Arthur Gonzalez (M.S. 1976), United States Bankruptcy Court Judge for the Southern District of New York, presided over the bankruptcy proceedings for WorldCom, Enron, and Chrysler Sterling Johnson, Jr. (B.A. 1963), senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York Edward R. Korman (B.A. 1963), Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Doris Ling-Cohan (B.A. 1976), judge on the New York State Supreme Court Rosemary S. Pooler (B.A. 1959), Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Deborah Poritz (B.A. 1958), first female Chief Justice, New Jersey State Supreme Court; first female New Jersey Attorney General, 1994–96 Jason K. Pulliam (B.A. 1995; M.A. 1997), United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Joel Harvey Slomsky (B.A. 1967), United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania William C. Thompson (B.A. 1949), Brooklyn's first African American State Senator; Justice of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division Jack B. Weinstein (B.A. 1943), Columbia Law School professor and Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Attorneys Benjamin Brafman (B.A. 1971), prominent criminal defense attorney George Carroll (B.A. 1943), lawyer who was important civic figure in Contra Costa County, California and the city of Richmond Jay Goldberg (B.A. 1954), trial attorney, formerly a member of the Justice Department in the Kennedy administration Robert M. Kaufman (B.A. 1951), attorney, partner with the law firm Proskauer Rose, and former president of the New York City Bar Association Harvey R. Miller (B.A. 1954), bankruptcy lawyer with Weil, Gotshal