Peekskill City Court Judge Reginald Johnson has turned in his gavel after being formally charged with acts of misconduct.
According to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, Johnson, the first African American judge in Peekskill’s history, who has served on the city’s bench since 2014, will resign effective Sept. 30 and “agreed never to return.”
Johnson was reappointed last year by the Peekskill Common Council to a 10-year term. His current term would have expired on Dec. 31, 2033…