Presiding Justice Alan Scheinkman of New York’s Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department will step down from the bench at the end of December, having reached the state’s mandatory judicial retirement age of 70 after three years in the leadership role and 13 as a judge.

As he looked back at his tenure in an interview with the Law Journal this month, Scheinkman said he’s proud of his focus on improving the Appellate Division, Second Department’s technology, even though he acknowledged he was “not prescient enough to see that there was a pandemic coming.”