Anil Singh Blazes a Path for South Asian Judges in Empire State

When New York Justice Anil Singh emigrated to the US from India at 18 years old, the idea of being a judge wasn’t in his mind—perhaps, he said, because there weren’t other South Asian judges at the time.

“Maybe in the back of my head I had a dream that I wanted to be a judge, but it was not a dream that I could really articulate because there wasn’t anyone to articulate it to,” Singh, 65, said. “There weren’t South Asian judges that I could call and say, ‘Hey, how do I do this?’”

A recent New York State ...