Rosalyn Richter

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 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
SpouseJanet Weinberg
Alma materBarnard College
Brooklyn Law School

Early life and education

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.

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?

  1. "Appellate Division - First Judicial Department". www.courts.state.ny.us.

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.[1] 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."[1]

Justice Richter ended her lengthy judicial career by retiring in July 2020.[2]

Personal life

Richter married her wife, Janet Weinberg, in August 2011, shortly after same-sex marriage was legalized in the state of New York.[3] Weinberg died on September 1, 2018, in the Bronx.[4]

See also

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