Chief Judge Janet DiFiore on Wednesday named Karen Peters as the chair of New York’s Commission on Justice for Children.

Peters, a former presiding justice of New York’s Appellate Division, Third Department, will replace A. Gail Prudenti, the dean of Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law and former chief administrative judge for New York courts. Prudenti had been serving as the commission’s chair since February 2016.