NEW YORK – The Honorable Elizabeth A. Garry of the Supreme Court Appellate Division was recently named co-chair of the New York State Court System's first LGBT Commission.

Garry was elected Supreme Court Justice for the Sixth Judicial District in 2006. Before that, she was elected Town Justice in the Town of New Berlin in 2001 and then again in 2005. In 2009, she was appointed to the New York State Appellate Division as the first openly gay justice.