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NY’s First Female Chief Judge Dies

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Judith Kaye, the first woman to serve on New York’s seven-member Court of Appeals and the first woman to serve as New York State’s chief judge, died at 77 years old. So reports the New York Law Journal.

Kaye died after a years-long battle with cancer. She served as chief judge longer than any of her male predecessors, and is known for having reformed New York’s process for serving jury duty and having dissented in a case in which the majority did not recognize same-sex marriage as legal under New York's Constitution.

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