--- title: "Jane Pearl | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/jane-pearl-ny-trial-c9aefb2b" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-08-02" --- # Jane Pearl Family Court of the City of New York, Bronx County · Judicial Officer ## Profile - Court: Family Court of the City of New York, Bronx County - State: New York - Role: Judicial Officer - Service status: active - Last verified: 2026-07-27 ## Summary Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge. ## Biography ### Professional career - Acting Justice, Supreme Court, New York County, Appointed by Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau, 2009 to Present - Acting Justice, New York Supreme Court, New York County, New York, NY, 2009-present - Judge, New York City Family Court, New York, NY, 2009-2019 - Supervising Judge, New York City Family Court, New York, NY, 2008-2009 - Judge, New York City Family Court, New York, NY, 2000-2009 - Supervising Judge, New York City Family Court, New York, NY, 2003-2008 ### Education - Yeshiva University — J.D. (1988) - Psychology — Northwestern University - Ph.D. and M.A. from Northwestern University and a B.A. from George Washington University. ### Additional information - Joined the Family Court bench in 2000 by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, reappointed in 2009 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and again in 2019 by Mayor Bill de Blasio, reflecting her long-standing judicial service and expertise in family law - Family Court Hearing Examiner, NYS Unified Court System, NY, 1994-2000 - Practitioner, Tenzer, Greenblatt, Fullon and Kaplan, 1990-1992 - Law Assistant, NYS Unified Court System, Trial Part, NY, 1988-1990 - Current court assignment: Family Court of the City of New York, Bronx County - Jane Pearl combines decades of judicial experience, clinical psychology expertise, and legal practice to provide comprehensive, client-centered family law services. - Nearly 22 years on the New York City Family Court bench, presiding in New York, Bronx, and Kings counties. - This clinical grounding informs her interdisciplinary approach to family law - Clinician and forensic consultant in Chicago, held academic positions at the University of Illinois Department of Preventive Medicine and School of Public Health, and lectured at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine. - She held leadership roles as Supervising Judge of Kings, Richmond, and New York County Family Courts and previously held the role of a referee, child and spousal support magistrate, and court attorney. - Judge Pearl is actively involved in professional organizations, including serving as a board member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts – New York (AFCC-NY) and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. ## Before you appear - Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed. - Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance. - Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding. ## Courtroom Rules ### recording and photography Scope: statewide New York statewide rules require permission before photographing, filming, videotaping, audiotaping, broadcasting, or telecasting in court facilities, including courtrooms. Evidence excerpt: Taking photographs, films or videotapes, or audiotaping, broadcasting or telecasting, in a courthouse including any courtroom, office or hallway thereof, at any time or on any occasion, whether or not the court is in session, is forbidden, unless permission of the Chief Administrator of the Courts or a designee of the Chief Administrator is first obtained [Part 29: Electronic Recording and Audio-Visual Coverage in Court Facilities and of Court Proceedings](https://www.nycourts.gov/rules/part-29-electronic-recording-and-audio-visual-coverage-court-facilities-and-court-proceedings?from_node=15921&topic=386&wrapped=true) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ### evidence presentation control Scope: statewide The official Guide to New York Evidence identifies court control over presentation of evidence as a statewide evidence topic; counsel should expect the assigned judge to control the mode and order of proof. Evidence excerpt: 1.07. COURT CONTROL OVER PRESENTATION OF EVIDENCE [Guide to New York Evidence: Article 1, General Provisions and Court's Role](https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/evidence/1-GENERAL/1-generalprovisions.shtml) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ## Sources - [Official profile](https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/judicialdirectory/Bio?judge_id=ndX3tmunjHk6_PLUS_EDCykH76w%3D%3D) - [Official roster](https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/judicialdirectory/Bio?judge_id=ndX3tmunjHk6_PLUS_EDCykH76w%3D%3D) - [New York State Unified Court System official judicial roster](https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/judicialdirectory/Bio?judge_id=ndX3tmunjHk6_PLUS_EDCykH76w%3D%3D) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/15006/jane-pearl/) - [Part 29: Electronic Recording and Audio-Visual Coverage in Court Facilities and of Court Proceedings](https://www.nycourts.gov/rules/part-29-electronic-recording-and-audio-visual-coverage-court-facilities-and-court-proceedings?from_node=15921&topic=386&wrapped=true) - [Guide to New York Evidence: Article 1, General Provisions and Court's Role](https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/evidence/1-GENERAL/1-generalprovisions.shtml) - [New York State Unified Court System judicial profile or roster](https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/judicialdirectory/Bio?judge_id=ndX3tmunjHk6_PLUS_EDCykH76w%3D%3D) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/15006/jane-pearl/) ## JSON-LD ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/jane-pearl-ny-trial-c9aefb2b", "url": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/jane-pearl-ny-trial-c9aefb2b", "name": "Jane Pearl | KnowJudges", "description": "Jane Pearl, Family Court of the City of New York, Bronx County. 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Collected 2026-10-27. - [Part 29: Electronic Recording and Audio-Visual Coverage in Court Facilities and of Court Proceedings](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-99a7824bb8e009643f842c03) — Scope is limited to the court class in the source claim. Shared court context only; case-type restrictions, exceptions, later amendments and case orders apply. This is not a personal preference or a complete rules inventory. [Official source](https://www.nycourts.gov/rules/part-29-electronic-recording-and-audio-visual-coverage-court-facilities-and-court-proceedings?from_node=15921&topic=386&wrapped=true). Collected 2026-07-26. - [Part 29: Electronic Recording and Audio-Visual Coverage in Court Facilities and of Court Proceedings](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-34fe480ab82f22fa3c31d257) — Scope is limited to the court class in the source claim. Shared court context only; case-type restrictions, exceptions, later amendments and case orders apply. This is not a personal preference or a complete rules inventory. [Official source](https://www.nycourts.gov/rules/part-29-electronic-recording-and-audio-visual-coverage-court-facilities-and-court-proceedings?from_node=15921&topic=386&wrapped=true). Collected 2026-07-26.