Julio Rodriguez III ’90
Raised by a single mom in 1980s Bushwick, Julio Rodriguez III ’90 saw both crime and unsettling police interactions with his community. “I felt something needed to be done,” he recalls.
Passionate to pursue a law degree, he almost didn’t attend Tech. His concern that its STEM-rich curriculum wouldn’t launch him toward a law career melted after one “unchallenging” year in a local high school. He transferred to Tech, and “it was challenging. It prepared me.”
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Rising through the ranks of government and the legal system, Justice Rodriguez now sits on the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan – the second highest court in the state. There, he rules on some of the state’s most significant cases.
On his office wall – as it has been in all his previous offices – is a photo montage he made of his personal role models and heroes. Among them: Supreme Court Justices Marshall and Sotomayor and Nelson Mandela, alongside the flag of Rodriguez’s ancestral homeland, Puerto Rico. It hangs where he can see it from his desk. “I want to draw inspiration from it,” he says.
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