An interview with The Hon. A. Gail Prudenti, Former Chief Administrative Judge, Courts of New York State

Few American jurists have assembled a career as influential or accomplished as the Honorable A. Gail Prudenti, the former Chief Administrative Judge of the Courts of New York State. From her studies at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and her first job as a law clerk in the Suffolk County Surrogate’s Court to her days as a Suffolk prosecutor, her 20-plus years on the bench and her post-judgeship partnership at East Setauket-based family-law specialist Burner Prudenti Law, Gail has seen and done it all, inside the courtroom and out. In today’s episode, the longtime judge and former dean of the Hofstra University law school joins Spark host Gregory Zeller to discuss her storied career, the scope and sometimes underappreciated significance of family law and her highest hopes for the future of federal judiciary – plus the inescapable importance of diversity in the application of the law.