Kumiki Gibson
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Kumiki Gibson (b. May 24, 1959) is a lawyer of Japanese and African American descent, originally from Buffalo, New York. She graduated from Harvard Extension School in 1985 and from Northeastern University School of Law in 1988.
Gibson has served in a variety of positions in the private, not-for-profit, and public sectors, most recently as the Commissioner of the New York State Division of Human Rights, the State agency charged with enforcing the State's civil rights law. She was appointed to that post in January 2007 by then newly-elected Governor Eliot Spitzer who resigned in the wake of a prostitution scandal. During her fourteen month tenure as commissioner, Gibson was sued by seven different Division employees for employment discrimination based on their age, non-gay sexual orientation, race and gender, among other things. She was the only commissioner to be fired by Governor David Paterson when he assumed leadership following Eliot Spitzer's resignation. She was fired for mistreating her employees.
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