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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Kristin Booth Glen |
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| Info | Kristin Booth Glen, received her B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University and her J.D. fromColumbia Law School where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. A member of the judiciary since 1980, she served as a Civil Court Judge for six years before being elected to New York State Supreme Court in 1986. In 1993 she was appointed an Associate Justice of the Appellate Term, First Judicial Department. A founder of the Women's Law Clinic at New York University, she has been a legal educator for more than twenty years, having also taught at New York Law School and Hofstra University School of Law. After graduation, she clerked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and worked in a private law firm. As a judge she wrote major, cutting-edge decisions in a wide range of areas including AIDS, sexual harassment, the rights of the physically and mentally challenged, the elderly, and on constitutional issues such as free speech. She served as Commissioner of the ABA Commission on the Elderly and the Association of American Law Schools Commission on Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities, and is a member of the boards of a number of organizations, including the Board of Overseers for the Brookdale Center on Law and Aging, the Media Access Project, Washington, D.C., Sanctuary for Families, the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Prisoners Legal Services, and the Fund for Modern Courts. She is active in numerous bar associations, including the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Brehon Law Society, the National Lawyers Guild, the New York State Bar Association, where she chairs the Public Interest Law Committee, the Women's Bar Association, and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Her teaching areas include constitutional law, evidence, family law, feminist jurisprudence, law and aging, and bioethics.
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