Caribbean American J. Machelle Sweeting is a trailblazing acting Supreme Court jurist in the New York State Supreme Court.
Justice Sweeting — a Harlem resident, whose father hailed from The Bahamas — is the only legal practitioner admitted to practice law in both the federal and state courts in New York; Washington, DC; the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd and 4th Circuits; the United States Supreme Court; and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.
Notably, in 2016, long before the global COVID-19 pandemic upended the court system and, indeed, the world, Justice Sweeting presided over the nation’s first ever state-wide “Remote Access” Court, which allowed litigants to appear before the court via SKYPE.
