The following is an edited version of a speech delivered by former Appellate Division, Second Department Justice Sondra Miller on receipt of the Kay C. Murray Award given by the New York State Bar Association’s Women in the Law Committee in January 2013.

If I have been in any way a trailblazer my role has been fortuitous, I have been consistently in the right place at the right time. I have "seized the day" and for that credit belongs to my father’s strong direction: