Rosalyn Richter is an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the New York
.
Early life and education
Richter is the daughter of Anita Richter and the late Nathaniel Richter. She is a 1976 graduate of
Barnard College
Barnard College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a grou ...
and a 1979 graduate of
Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn Law School (BLS) is a Private university, private law school in New York City. Founded in 1901, it has approximately 1,100 students. Brooklyn Law School's faculty includes 60 full-time faculty, 15 emeriti faculty, and adjunct faculty.
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Legal career
Richter 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
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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
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David Paterson
David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 55th governor of New York, succeeding Eliot Spitzer, who resigned, and serving out nearly three years of Spitzer's term from March 2008 to ...
.
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.
As Richter, put it, she was honored for "being so out in the late 1970s, and 1980s and for being out throughout
erjudicial career."
Justice Richter ended her lengthy judicial career by retiring in July 2020.
On October 12, 2020, Justice Richter joined Arnold & Porter's Complex Litigation practice as Senior Counsel.
Personal life
Richter married her wife,
Janet Weinberg, in August 2011, shortly after same-sex marriage was legalized in the state of New York. Weinberg died on September 1, 2018, in the
Bronx
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.
See also
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List of LGBT jurists in the United States
This is a list of openly LGBTQ Americans who are or were judges, magistrate judges, court commissioners, or administrative law judges in the United States and its federal district and territories. If known, it will be listed if a judge has served ...
References
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Living people
New York (state) lawyers
Barnard College alumni
Brooklyn Law School alumni
LGBTQ people from New York (state)
Year of birth missing (living people)
LGBTQ judges
American LGBTQ lawyers
Arnold & Porter people
New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department justices