Promoting Diversity in the Courts: Hon. Kathie E. Davidson

Published: Oct. 17, 2022, 7 a.m.

After scoring a number of \u201cfirsts\u201d in her judicial career \u2013first African American woman appointed as Supervising Judge in the Ninth JD, first woman to be appointed Administrative Judge in the Ninth and the first African American to be appointed Administrative Judge outside of New York City \u2013 Judge Kathie E. Davidson has embarked on a new challenge: running the cutting-edge think thank that is the NYS Judicial Institute.\n\nIn this interview, she discusses her past, her present and her vision for the future of the Judicial Institute.