Hon. Rachel Kretser

Mediator

Mediator

Judge Rachel Kretser was appointed to the Albany City Criminal Court in December 2005, and was elected to that position in 2006, becoming the first woman ever to serve on a criminal court bench in the Third Judicial District. In 2016 she was appointed Acting County Court Judge for Domestic Violence matters. Since her retirement from the bench in January 2017, Judge Kretser serves as an adjunct professor at Albany Law School, a Judicial Hearing Officer, mediator and arbitrator. In early 2018, she was appointed by Presiding Justice E. Garry to the 3rd Dept. Appellate Division Civil Appeals Settlement Panel where she mediates a wide variety of cases pending before the appellate court.