Rosalyn Richter is an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department.
She was instrumental in the fight for Gay Rights publishing in 1982 the report: Anti-gay legislation: An attempt to sanction inequality?
On August 3, 2018, Richter received the Dan Bradley Award, the National LGBT Bar Association's highest honor, in recognition of her pathbreaking legacy of service.
[3] On October 12, 2020, Justice Richter joined Arnold & Porter's Complex Litigation practice as Senior Counsel.
[4] Richter married her wife, Janet Weinberg, in August 2011, shortly after same-sex marriage was legalized in the state of New York.