State Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead has been appointed associate justice to the Appellate Term, First Department, by Chief Administrative Justice Lawrence Marks. She will take the place of Justice Martin Shulman who was recently named presiding justice of the appellate term.

In addition to taking on criminal, housing and civil cases as part of her responsibilities on the appellate term, Edmead will continue to hear civil cases as a  Supreme Court justice.

“I have no intention of reducing my caseload and I have approximately 650 to 700 cases now,”  said Edmead, 71.

On the Supreme Court, her biggest litigation, the E. 51st Street crane collapse, which involved 75 different cases, is wrapped up. She's now handling a variety of cases including complex commercial matters, trips and falls and pedestrian accidents.

Of her new appointment to the appellate term, she said, “I know that the bench that exists is stellar and I'm looking forward to joining a stellar team.”

She was elected to the Supreme Court, civil, in 2003. Before that, she was a judge on New York City Civil Court. She was counsel to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. from 1992 to 1998.

She was an associate at Townley & Updike and Proskauer Rose. She was also the associate corporation counsel for the New York City Commercial Litigation Division from 1985 to 1988.

But in addition to all her legal experience, she's “a real crazy opera person” and a patron of the Metropolitan Opera. She sat for six hours recently to see “Parsifal.”

And, she said, she would have been happy to stay even longer if they kept singing.