Among her array of accomplishments, Yale Law School professor Abbe Gluck clerked for late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for 12 months beginning in July 2003, and she later served as an attorney for New York City in former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration.

Now one of seven finalists for chief judge of New York, a role that heads the seven-judge New York Court of Appeals and leads the state’s complex $2.4 billion court system, Gluck, 48, is a lifelong New Yorker and oft-cited legal scholar who recently served as lead attorney for President Joe Biden’s White House COVID-19 Response Team.