Judith Kaye, longtime leader on NY’s top court, dies at 77
Former Chief Judge Judith Kaye, the first woman appointed to New York’s top court, has died. She was 77.
The state court system said Thursday that Kaye had died a day earlier. She lived in Manhattan.
First appointed to the bench in 1983, Kaye was named chief judge of the Court of Appeals by Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1993. Her predecessor, Sol Wachtler, resigned amid federal charges he harassed and threatened a former lover and her daughter.