As two retired judges who sat in upstate New York and a matrimonial attorney who practiced with Justice Miller after her retirement from the bench, we are saddened by the passing of our trailblazing colleague, Justice Sondra M. Miller.

Justice Miller crashed through the glass ceiling: as one of the first women to graduate from Harvard Law School, then to serve on the Family Court, the Supreme Court, and the Appellate Division, Second Department.