Thirty years ago today, the Hon. Judith S. Kaye made history when she was sworn in as the first female Chief Judge in New York State, a position she would hold for a record-breaking 15 years. All told, Judge Kaye, who was the first woman ever to sit on the state’s highest court, served 25 years, three months, 19 days and 12 hours on the Court of Appeals.
In a special Women’s History Month edition of Diversity Dialogues, a podcast program of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Marilyn Marcus, Executive Director of the Historical Society of the New York Courts, discusses what Judith Smith Kaye meant to the courts, the law and to her personally.
Transcript: https://ww2.nycourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/files/2023-03/Marilyn%20Marcus%20on%20JSK.pdf