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Rachel “Ruchie” Freier ’05 (b. 1965)
Rachel “Ruchie” Freier, who graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 2005, is one of the first Hasidic women to practice law in New York and the first to serve as a judge in the state court system. Raised in Borough Park, she built her legal career alongside community work, including founding Ezras Nashim, an all-female volunteer ambulance corps. Elected to the Civil Court in 2016, she is noted for balancing her judicial responsibilities with long-standing ties to her community. “I conformed,” she said in a 2017 interview with the New York Times “I just found some creative ways to extend what it means to conform.”
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Community Work, Ezras Nashim, Civil Court, Hasidic Judges, Jewish Judges, Women Judges, Female Judges, New York, Borough Park