Marcy Kahn, First Openly Lesbian Judge in NYC Criminal Court, to Retire After 30 Years
"We were all going to funerals—two or three a month—of our friends then who were in their 30s and 40s and 50s, and so we were desperate," Justice Marcy Kahn says of her early days as an advocate for New York City's gay community.
March 18, 2019 at 11:30 AM
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Marcy Kahn, who has been a prosecutor, a law firm partner, a criminal judge and an appellate justice over a 30-year career, will retire from the First Department in September to become an advocate on climate change, sustainable development, human rights and the rule of law.
Her departure will leave the First Department four judges short unless Gov. Andrew Cuomo makes his judicial selections before the fall. A fifth vacancy will be created when Justice John Sweeny Jr. retires at the end of the year.
In 1987, Mayor Ed Koch appointed Kahn to the bench in Bronx County, making her the first openly lesbian judge in the New York City Criminal Court.
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