Hon. Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick (ret.)

Hon. Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick (ret.), a native New Yorker received her undergraduate degree from Hunter College and, in 1967, was awarded a Juris Doctor degree from St. John’s University School of Law. A staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society from 1967 to 1969, she left that position to join the Court System and in 1972 was designated Chief Law Assistant of the Criminal Court of the City of New York and served as Counsel to the New York City Administrative Judge David Ross.

In 1978, Mayor Edward I. Koch appointed Judge Ciparick to the Criminal Court of the City of New York. In 1982, she was elected a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court and in January 1994, Governor Mario M. Cuomo, appointed her to the Court of Appeals. She was re-appointed by Governor Eliot Spitzer in November 2007. Upon her retirement from the Court in December 2012, she became “Of Counsel” to the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, LLP.

Judge Ciparick currently chairs the New York State Board of Law Examiners, is also a member of the New York State Indigent Legal Services Board and co-chairs the New York State Justice Task Force that examines the causes of wrongful convictions. During a previous New York City Administration she chaired the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. She is also a former Board member of VNS Health and the Office of the Appellate Defender.