Photo by David Handschuh/NYLJ

New York Solicitor General Barbara Underwood received the Judith S. Kaye award from the Historical Society of the New York Courts during their 2019 Gala Dinner on Thursday, May 16 at the New York Public Library. Also honored were Judge Esther Morgenstern of the Integrated Domestic Violence Problem Solving Court; Judge Alex Calabrese, Red Hook Community Justice Center and Judge Robert Russell of the Buffalo Veterans Treatment Court. For the last 12 years, the Historical Society has hosted a dinner to honor important figures and institutions in New York's legal history and to raise funds for the coming year.