Judge Sondra Miller serves as Chief Counsel to McCarthy Fingar LLP. She leads the firm's appellate practice and serves as an arbitrator, collaborative lawyer, and member of the firm's litigation and matrimonial and family law groups.

Judge Miller served on the New York State Appellate Division Second Department from 1990 to 2006. She had served prior to that time on the New York State Supreme Court from 1986 to 1990, and on the Westchester Family Court from 1983 to 1986. Among Judge Miller's "firsts" are her law degree from Harvard Law School (she was in its first class to admit women); her election to the Supreme Court, Ninth Judicial District in November 1986 (the first Democrat to win a contested election in the 9th Judicial District in nearly 100 years); and her appointment as Associate Justice, Appellate Division, Second Department, in January 1990 (the first woman in the 9th Judicial District to be so recognized).

Presently, Judge Miller serves as Co-Chair of the New York State Family Violence Task Force, Commissioner on the Governor's Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children, Co-Chair of the Mediation and Arbitration Committee for the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York, and member of the Matrimonial Practice Advisory and Rules Committee under the auspices of the New York State Office of Court Administration. Judge Miller is a Founder and Past President of the Westchester Women's Bar Association and former Vice-President of the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York. She is Founder and former Co-President of Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert (JALBCA).  She is co-chair of the newly formed Judicial Restoration of Parent Education Committee in New York (JROPE).

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Awards

  • Honoree - Family Kind, 2017
  • Academy of Divorce Financial Planning, 2015
  • Honoree - Kate Stoneman Award from Albany Law School, October 2014
  • Honoree - Justice Brandeis Law Society, Breaking the Ceiling Glass Award, October 2014
  • Honoree - Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, May 2014
  • NYSBA Kay Crawford Murray Award 2013
  • Honoree - AJC Westchester, Judge Learned Hand Award, December 2011
  • Pace Setter Award 2011
  • Honoree - New York County Lawyers' Association, Matrimonial Law Section, June 2007
  • The Legal Services of the Hudson Valley Access to Justice Award, April 2007
  • Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Award, 2006
  • The Westchester Women's Bar Association Foundation established its annual scholarship award named "Justice Sondra M. Miller Scholarship," 2005
  • Honoree - White Plains Bar Association, 2004
  • Honoree - Westchester County Bar Association, 2004 •    Pace School of Law Leadership Award, October 2002
  • Rockland County Women's Bar Association Belle Mayer Zeck Award "in recognition of her wisdom, ethics, creativity and the pursuit of excellence in the law: thus promoting understanding between the legal profession and the community and advancing the status of women in society," 2001
  • Diane White "Advocate for Women's Justice," Pace School of Law, Pace Women's Justice Center, 1999
  • New York State Bar Association Howard A. Levine Award for Outstanding Work in the Area of Children and the Law, 1997
  • The Women's Medical Association of New York City, "1996 Woman of Conscience Award"
  • New York State Bar Association, Family Law Section, Award, 1995
  • New York State Bar Association, Ruth G. Schapiro Award, 1995
  • Horace Mann School Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Achievement, 1994
  • Kings County District Attorney's Office Women's History Month, "Jurist of the Year Award," 1994
  • Founders Award, Women's Bar Association of the State of New York, 1993
  • Sybil Hart Kooper Award, Brooklyn Women's Bar Association, 1993
  • Pace University Annual Award for Distinguished Service to the Criminal Justice System, 1985
  • Westchester Women of the Year Award, 1982