{{short description|American lawyer}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Rosalyn Richter | image = | image_size = | caption = | office = Associate Justice of the First Judicial Department | term_start = 2009 | term_end = July 2020 | nominator = | appointer = David Paterson | predecessor = | successor = | office2 = Justice on the New York Supreme Court, 1st Judicial District | term_start2 = 2002 | term_end2 = 2009 | nominator2 = | appointer2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | office3 = Judge on the New York City Criminal Court | term_start3 = 1990 | term_end3 = 1996 | nominator3 = | appointer3 = | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = {{marriage|Janet Weinberg|2011|2018|end=died}} | alma_mater = Barnard College <br /> Brooklyn Law School }}
'''Rosalyn Richter''' is an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.courts.state.ny.us/courts/ad1/justicesofthecourt/justices_richter.shtml|title=Appellate Division - First Judicial Department|website=www.courts.state.ny.us}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Richter is the daughter of Anita Richter and the late Nathaniel Richter. She is a 1976 graduate of Barnard College and a 1979 graduate of Brooklyn Law School.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}
==Legal career== Richter enjoyed a lengthy career in the judiciary. She was instrumental in the fight for Gay Rights publishing in 1982 the report: Anti-gay legislation: An attempt to sanction inequality? She began serving on the New York City Criminal Court from 1990 to 1996. Richter then proceeded to serve as a New York Supreme Court Justice, from 2002 to 2009. She was designated a Justice for the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department in 2008 by Governor David Paterson.
On August 3, 2018, Richter received the Dan Bradley Award, the National LGBT Bar Association's highest honor, in recognition of her pathbreaking legacy of service.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://ialgbtj.org/2738-2/|title=Justice Rosalyn Richter Receives the LGBT Bar's Dan Bradley Award|date=4 September 2018}}</ref> As Richter, put it, she was honored for "being so out in the late 1970s, and 1980s and for being out throughout [her] judicial career."<ref name="auto"/>
Justice Richter ended her lengthy judicial career by retiring in July 2020.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2020/08/18/the-state-of-the-appellate-division-first-department-2/| title = The State of the Appellate Division, First Department {{!}} New York Law Journal}}</ref>
On October 12, 2020, Justice Richter joined Arnold & Porter's Complex Litigation practice as Senior Counsel.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspectives/news/2020/10/assoc-justice-rosalyn-richter-joins-arnold-porter/| title = Associate Justice Rosalyn Richter Joins Arnold & Porter in New York|date=12 October 2020}}</ref>
==Personal life== Richter married her wife, Janet Weinberg, in August 2011, shortly after same-sex marriage was legalized in the state of New York.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/fashion/weddings/janet-weinberg-rosalyn-richter-weddings.html|title=Janet Weinberg, Rosalyn Richter: Weddings|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 12, 2011}}</ref> Weinberg died on September 1, 2018, in the Bronx.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/obituaries/janet-weinberg-dead.html|title=Janet Weinberg, 63, Dies; Advocate for Gay Causes and the Disabled|first=Richard|last=Sandomir|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 14, 2018}}</ref>
== See also == * List of LGBT jurists in the United States
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