Governor Andrew Cuomo this afternoon appointed Karen Peters (See Profile) presiding justice of the Appellate Division, Third Department, making the longtime judge the first woman to run the mid-level panel in Albany.
Peters, 64, who was appointed to the Third Department in 1994 by the governor’s father, Mario Cuomo, was the first woman elected to Supreme Court. Before her 1992 election to that court, Peters had been an Ulster County Family Court judge, counsel to the Division of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse and an assistant district attorney in Dutchess County.
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