lohud.com (Lower Hudson Valley, NY)
12:39 AM, Apr. 25, 2011
With a brand-new law degree in 1978, Elizabeth Moore followed her peers, knocking on the doors of New York City law firms, ready to prove herself.
But her reception was different.
"Being an African-American woman, there wasn't a lot of receptivity to my joining a law firm," recalled Moore, 56, who lives in Sleepy Hollow.
The ambitious attorney persevered, securing a job in Consolidated Edison's law department. Moore left the utility a few years later — practicing privately and serving as counsel for Gov. Mario Cuomo — but returned two years ago with a different title: general counsel — the first black to fill the executive post at Con Edison.
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