Biography
Justice Judith J. Gische currently serves as an Associate Justice in the New York State Appellate Division, First Judicial Department. She was appointed in October 2012.
Justice Gische began her judicial career in 1990, when she was appointed to serve as a Housing Court Judge in Kings County. She was then elected to the Civil Court in the City of New York in 1994 and reelected in 2004. She was appointed an acting Supreme Court Justice in 1997. She was elected to the Supreme Court for a term beginning 2009. Among other assignments, Justice Gische presided over dedicated matrimonial parts in both the Bronx and New York County for seven years and subsequently presided over an IAS Civil Part in New York County for eight years.
Prior to her election to the bench, Justice Gische was a Judicial Clerk in the Appellate Division, Third Department from 1980 to 1982 and a senior attorney at Richenthal, Abrams & Moss from 1982 to 1990. From 1990 to 1993, she served as a Judge in the Housing Part of the Civil Court of the City of New York in Brooklyn.
In 1977 Justice Gische received her undergraduate degree with honors from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She went on to receive her law degree from SUNY Buffalo in 1980.
Justice Gische is a member of Chief Judge Janet DiFiore’s Advisory Committee on Evidence. She is a member of the Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions Association of the State of New York. She also serves on the Dean’s Advisory Committee of her alma mater, UB Law School. She was Adjunct Professor for ten years at New York Law School and has been a featured lecturer on numerous occasions for varied professional associations. She has published a number of articles on housing, custody and guardianship issues. She is also a co-author of chapter 6 of the Judges Bench Book. In addition, Justice Gische is also a member of various bar associations.