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Lippman to Follow Kaye as New York State Chief Judge

By Dan Slater

Former New York state Chief Judge Judith Kaye with Former Chief Administrative Judge Jonathan Lippman. (AP/Ed Bailey)

After 15 years of Judge Judith Kaye, New York is getting a new chief justice. Tomorrow, reports the NYLJ and the NYT, Gov. David A. Paterson will introduce 63 year-old Justice Jonathan Lippman as his nominee to become New York’s next chief judge.

Lippman (NYU, NYU Law) has been presiding justice on the Appellate Division, First Department, since 2007 and between 1996 and 2007 he was the longest-serving chief administrative judge in state history.

According to the Times, Patterson reportedly selected Lippman from a list of seven, including George Carpinello, a partner at Boies Schiller and a former professor at Albany Law School; Evan Davis, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb, who was counsel to Gov. Mario Cuomo; Steven Fisher, associate justice in the second department of the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court; Theodore Jones Jr., associate judge on the Court of Appeals, who was a State Supreme Court justice in Brooklyn from 1990 to 2006; Eugene Pigott Jr., associate judge on the Court of Appeals, who was a State Supreme Court justice from 1997 until 2006; and Peter Zimroth, a partner at Arnold & Porter, who was corporation counsel from 1987 to 1989, under Mayor Edward Koch.

Full post as published by Law Blog - WSJ.com on January 13, 2009 (boomark / email).