Chief Administrative Judge A. Gail Prudenti announced Monday she will retire after 23 years on the bench to be an administrator and adviser at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University.
Prudenti’s 3 1/2 years as the top lieutenant to Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman saw the courts struggling to recover ground lost in the budget-and-job-cutting years of the early 2010s and the peaceful resolution of a fractious dispute with attorneys over their disclosure of their pro bono contributions.
