Keeping a campaign promise to name a woman, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo,
soon after taking office in 1983, appointed Ms. Kaye, a fellow Democrat and then a commercial
litigator,
as an associate judge of the Court of Appeals.
Soon after this ruling (commonly referred to
as the PICS decision) we convened leading thinkers and
litigators to begin talking about ways to best assist educators who still wanted to pursue racial diversity in their schools.