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.
