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Barnard
Honors Judith Kaye '58
and Cynthia
Nixon '88
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Judith
Kaye
Cynthia
Nixon
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Two
of Barnard's prominent alumna — the Honorable Judith
S. Kaye, Chief Judge of the State of New York, and Cynthia
Nixon, award-winning actress and co-star of HBO's popular
series "Sex and the City" — returned to
campus on Saturday, May 31 to receive awards at the College's
reunion weekend gala.
Chief Judge Kaye received the Woman of Achievement Award,
an award established to acknowledge an alumna's excellence
in her career, contribution to quality of life, and the improvement
of society. In presenting the award, Barnard president Judith
Shapiro cited Kaye's achievements in breaking barriers, "becoming
the first woman member of [her] law firm, the first woman
promoted to partner in that firm, and in 1983 the first woman
to be appointed to the New York State Court of Appeals. Ten
years later, [she was] chosen for the position of Chief Judge,
again the first woman, and [her] nomination was unanimously
confirmed by an enthusiastic state legislature." For
more on Judith Kaye, read this month's Alumna
in Action feature.
Actress Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda, an ambitious lawyer,
on the popular HBO television series "Sex and the City,"
received the Young Alumna Award, presented to an accomplished
alumna who has graduated within the past 15 years. Nixon,
a 1988 graduate of Barnard, said studying at the all-women's
college was good preparation for the role of Miranda. "From
its very beginning, Barnard was educating teachers, and social
activists and writers and scientists. I think of it as a feminist
place and Miranda is definitely a feminist," said Nixon.
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