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Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, Senior Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, was born in New York City in 1942. She grew up in Washington Heights, graduated from Hunter College in 1963 and received her J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law in 1967.
She was appointed a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society in New York
City in 1967. In 1969, she became an Assistant Counsel for the Judicial
Conference of the State of New York; in 1972, Chief Law Assistant of the
New York City Criminal Court, and in 1974, Counsel in the office of the
New York City Administrative Judge. In 1978, she was appointed Judge of
the New York City Criminal Court and, in 1982, was elected to the New
York State Supreme Court. She was appointed to the Court of Appeals on
December 1, 1993 by Governor Mario M. Cuomo, confirmed by the State Senate
and sworn in on January 4, 1994. Judge Ciparick was appointed to a second
term by Governor Eliot Spitzer on November 20, 2007, and was confirmed
by the Senate on December 13, 2007. She has one daughter, Roseanne, an
actor and mother-to-be. |
