Help Wanted: State Seeking Its Next Chief Judge
Fair Courts E-lert
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Author: Joseph Goldstein
Source: The New York Sun
Date: 06/19/2008
Article reports that with the announcement that New York's Chief Judge Judith Kaye is retiring after 15 years in her current position, the "dream job" for New York's "most ambitious lawyers" has opened up. Appointments to the Court of Appeals are made by the governor, "who is limited to choosing from seven candidates put forward by a state commission." At its current salary, "the job of presiding over the state judiciary would bring a drastic pay cut for many would-be applicants who are partners at major law firms," but after a state judge ordered the Legislature to raise judicial pay, "a raise may be forthcoming."