An all-female panel presided over an appeal with the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court, Fourth Department, in Western New York for the first time in history last week, the court announced Thursday.

Arguments were heard in Rochester on an appeal involving the postdivorce distribution of assets in a lawsuit by Justice Presiding Nancy Smith of Rochester and Justices Erin Peradotto, Shirley Troutman, and Joanne Winslow.