Hughes Hubbard & Reed partner Sarah Cave has been selected to serve as a Southern District of New York magistrate judge, the court announced Friday.

The Board of Judges for the Southern District court selected Cave for an eight-year magistrate judge term. She will sit in the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse at 500 Pearl St., assuming a seat presently occupied by Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman, who is retiring after 23 years of service. Pitman previously told the Law Journal he plans to step down from the bench at the end of September 2019.