Jonaki Mala Singh and Kartik Sameer Madiraju were married June 5 at State Supreme Court in Jamaica, Queens. Justice Lee A. Mayersohn, for whom the bride was an legal-research intern in 2013, officiated. On June 8, the couple had a Hindu ceremony at Terrace on the Park in Flushing, Queens, led by Pandit Nirmal Bhattacharyya.
The couple met at N.Y.U. School of Law, from which each received a law degree.
Ms. Singh, 27, is a litigation associate at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, a Manhattan law firm. She graduated magna cum laude from St. John’s University in Jamaica. Ms. Singh is an executive committee member and former secretary of Street Children International, an organization in Great Neck, N.Y., that supports education and nutrition programs for disadvantaged children worldwide.
She is the daughter of Meghmala Tarafdar and Sanjiv Singh of Bellerose, Queens. The bride’s father is a principal systems engineer for big data in the Plano, Tex., office of the Foundry, which is a research and development division of AT&T. Her mother is an assistant professor of English at Queensborough Community College in Bayside, Queens.
Mr. Madiraju, 29, is a litigation associate in the Manhattan office of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, a San Francisco law firm. He graduated and received a master’s degree in bioresource engineering from McGill University in Montreal.
He is the son of Padma Madiraju and S. R. Murthy Madiraju of Brossard, Ontario. The groom’s mother works for the surgery department at McGill as the administrator for the Skin Research Group of Canada. His father, a biochemist, is a senior scientist and conducts Type 2 diabetes research at the Montreal Diabetes Research Center at the University of Montreal.
