Rosalyn Richter is an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department.[1]
Rosalyn Richter | |
|---|---|
| Associate Justice of the First Judicial Department | |
| In office 2009 – July 2020 | |
| Appointed by | David Paterson |
| Justice on the New York Supreme Court, 1st Judicial District | |
| In office 2002–2009 | |
| Judge on the New York City Criminal Court | |
| In office 1990–1996 | |
| Personal details | |
| Spouse | Janet Weinberg |
| Alma mater | Barnard College Brooklyn Law School |
Early life and education
editRichter is the daughter of Anita Richter and the late Nathaniel Richter. She is a 1976 graduate of Barnard College and a 1979 graduate of Brooklyn Law School.[citation needed]
Legal career
editRichter enjoyed a lengthy career in the judiciary. She was instrumental in the fight for Gay Rights publishing in 1982 the report: Anti-gay legislation: An attempt to sanction inequality? She began serving on the New York City Criminal Court from 1990 to 1996. Richter then proceeded to serve as a New York Supreme Court Justice, from 2002 to 2009. She was designated a Justice for the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department in 2008 by Governor David Paterson.
On August 3, 2018, Richter received the Dan Bradley Award, the National LGBT Bar Association's highest honor, in recognition of her pathbreaking legacy of service.[2] As Richter, put it, she was honored for "being so out in the late 1970s, and 1980s and for being out throughout [her] judicial career."[2]
Justice Richter ended her lengthy judicial career by retiring in July 2020.[3]
On October 12, 2020, Justice Richter joined Arnold & Porter's Complex Litigation practice as Senior Counsel.[4]
Personal life
editRichter married her wife, Janet Weinberg, in August 2011, shortly after same-sex marriage was legalized in the state of New York.[5] Weinberg died on September 1, 2018, in the Bronx.[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Appellate Division - First Judicial Department". www.courts.state.ny.us.
- ^ a b "Justice Rosalyn Richter Receives the LGBT Bar's Dan Bradley Award". 4 September 2018.
- ^ "The State of the Appellate Division, First Department | New York Law Journal".
- ^ "Associate Justice Rosalyn Richter Joins Arnold & Porter in New York". 12 October 2020.
- ^ "Janet Weinberg, Rosalyn Richter: Weddings". The New York Times. August 12, 2011.
- ^ Sandomir, Richard (September 14, 2018). "Janet Weinberg, 63, Dies; Advocate for Gay Causes and the Disabled". The New York Times.