The number of women judges in New York has increased 6 percent over the last 10 years, according to a Law360 article on a study conducted at the Albany Law School. The decade-long study, titled Women in Federal and State-Level Judgeships, found that women currently comprise 31 percent of all federal and state judges in New York, up from 25 percent in 2002. New York, which ranks 11th out of 50 states for percentage of women judges, beat the national average of 24 percent for women judges at the federal level and saw larger gains at the state level.
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