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 by	David 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	Janet Weinberg ​ ​ (m. 2011; died 2018)​
Alma mater	Barnard 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.^{[citation needed]}

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 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]

On October 12, 2020, Justice Richter joined Arnold & Porter's Complex Litigation practice as Senior Counsel.^[4]

Personal life

Richter married her wife, Janet Weinberg, in August 2011, shortly after same-sex marriage was legalized in the state of New York.^[5] Weinberg died on September 1, 2018, in the Bronx.^[6]

See also

• List of LGBT jurists in the United States