The Interfaith Center of New York celebrates the life and mourns the passing of Judge Judith Kaye, the first woman Chief Judge of the State of New York who served from 1993 until 2008 as an outstanding jurist and effective administrator. Judge Kaye was a reformer and innovator in the area of problem-solving courts and co-founded the Center for Court Innovation—one of ICNY’s key partners in the area of prison reentry. Judge Kaye welcomed the Interfaith Center of New York’s Religious leaders and the Courts program that ran from 2003 to 2011 and created roundtables for religious leaders, judges, and other court officials in different boroughs to address pressing social concerns within their respective communities.
Judge Kaye was an extraordinary woman and ICNY was inspired by her vision of courts working for people.
A WNYT news report of her life is here.
