Judge Gregory Carro Wikipedia, Age, Wife, Political Party

Gregory Carro Biography – Gregory Carro Wiki

Gregory Carro is an American judge and a former prosecutor. He is a judge for the New York Court of Claims and an acting justice for the New York County Supreme Court. He was appointed by Chief Administrative Judge Jonathan Lippman in 2002.

Greg Carro was appointed to the bench by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani (Republican Party) in 1998 as a judge of the New York City Criminal Court. He was appointed to the Court of Claims by Governor George Pataki (Republican Party) in 2002 to a term ending in 2004 and re-appointed in 2005 to a term ending in 2013. He was re-appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo (Democratic Party) in 2014 to a term ending in 2022.

Prior to becoming a judge, Carro had been a prosecutor since graduating from Rutgers Law School in 1985, first for the city’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor and for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. After 13 years on the job, he submitted his name as a candidate for a judgeship.

Gregory Carro Age

Judge Gregory Carro was born in 1960 in The Bronx, New York.

Gregory Carro Wife

NY judge Gregory Carro is married to Mary Elizabeth Carro.

Gregory Carro Family

Judge Gregory Carro and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Carro, have two children, Marissa and Mackenzie. He is the son of legendary retired justice John Carro.

When John Carro was named a Criminal Court judge in 1968 by Mayor John V. Lindsay, he was one of only two or three Puerto Rican judges in the city and the first from the Bronx. He helped to found the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund and various Hispanic societies of municipal employees.

According to The New York Times, his battles with Mario Merola, the former Bronx district attorney, saw the court administration transfer him to Manhattan, where he eventually rose to become the state’s highest-ranking Puerto Rican judge, serving 16 years in the Appellate Division. When two New York senators nominated him to become a Federal judge in 1988, the Reagan and Bush Administrations sat on his nomination for three years, telling him they were not interested in activist judges. He finally withdrew his name angrily in 1991.

Gregory Carro Political Party

Judge Carro is nonpartisan.

Gregory Carro Salary

Justice Gregory Carro receives an annual salary of $136,700 as a judge of the Court of Claims in New York.