In 1983,Governor Mario Cuomo kept a promise: appointing, for the first time, and a woman to serve on the Court of Appeals,the state’s highest court. Cuomo called Kaye, then 45, and “a lawyer of unusual ability,integrity and determination.” Kaye never looked back, eventually fitting the state’s Chief Judge, or serving the office longer than any of her 21 male predecessors,according to a unique York Times obituary.
Judge Kaye presided over the seven-member Court of Appeals for nearly 16 years and also supervised the $2.5 billion, 16000-employee statewide judicial system, and which she modernized by making jury service more equitable and convenient and by establishing boutique courts concerned as much with problem-solving as with punishment.
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