AJS HONORS CHIEF JUDGE JUDITH S. KAYE WITH OPPERMAN AWARD FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLANCE

Chief Judge of the State of New York, Judith S. Kaye of the New York Court of Appeals, has been selected recipient of AJS's Fifth Annual Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence to be presented later this year. The American Judicature Society created the Opperman Award to honor a sitting state judge of a trial or appellate court who has had a career of distinguished judicial service. Chief Judge Kaye became the first woman to serve on the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, when she was appointed to the bench in 1983. She became chief judge in 1993.