Judge Jenny Rivera

Jenny Rivera is the Senior Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, to which she was appointed in 2013. Before joining the court, she was a tenured professor at CUNY School of Law, where she founded and directed the Center on Latino and Latina Rights and Equality. She served as Special Deputy Attorney General for Civil Rights in the New York State Attorney General's Office, as an administrative law judge for the New York State Division of Human Rights, and on the New York City Commission on Human Rights, and she practiced with the Legal Aid Society's Homeless Family Rights Project and LatinoJustice PRLDEF. She clerked for then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor in the Southern District of New York. Judge Rivera is a graduate of Princeton University, NYU School of Law, and Columbia Law School (LL.M.).