Rosalyn Richter

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Rosalyn Richter
Associate Justice of the First Judicial Department
Assumed office
2009
Appointed byDavid 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(s)Janet Weinberg
Alma materBarnard College
Brooklyn Law School

Rosalyn “Roz” Richter was an Associate Justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department.[1]

Early life and education[]

Justice Richter 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.

Legal career[]

Richter enjoyed a lengthy career in the judiciary. 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]

Personal life[]

Richter married her wife, Janet Weinberg, in August 2011, shortly after same-sex marriage was legalized in the state of New York.[4] Weinberg died on September 1, 2018 in the Bronx.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ "Appellate Division - First Judicial Department". www.courts.state.ny.us.
  2. ^ a b "Justice Rosalyn Richter Receives the LGBT Bar's Dan Bradley Award". 4 September 2018.
  3. ^ "The State of the Appellate Division, First Department | New York Law Journal".
  4. ^ "Janet Weinberg, Rosalyn Richter: Weddings". The New York Times. August 12, 2011.
  5. ^ Sandomir, Richard (September 14, 2018). "Janet Weinberg, 63, Dies; Advocate for Gay Causes and the Disabled". The New York Times.
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