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Sonja Flemming. Judy and Jerry in BUY IT. What Would Judy Say? Samantha Drake Samantha Drake is a freelance writer in the Philadelphia area. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. By this point, the couple had been married for 13 years, the second marriage for both. They'd met at a bar in , when Judy was a prosecutor and Jerry had recently completed a murder case as a defense lawyer.
It seems their connection was instant. Judy recalled feeling "so crazy" about Jerry, telling Closer , "I would have married him two days after we met At the time, Judy had only recently divorced from her first husband, attorney Ronald Levy. The pair were married for 12 years and welcomed two children, Jamie and Adam. The lawyer and TV producer admits her marriage to Levy largely came about because it felt like the "right" thing to do for a woman of her age at the time. So I became a mum All my friends were getting married, there was still those pressures even in those years.
Though she had wanted children, Judy felt stifled by the expectation on her to sideline her law career to embrace motherhood. It didn't help, she said, that Levy perceived her job to be less significant than his and felt the responsibility of raising their children should fall to her, despite her desire to return to work.
Levy later said he disagreed with her perception of his attitude at the time. The couple divorced in — "it was scary, I was the first divorce in my family" — and Judy met Jerry "within a relatively short period of time".
By , Judith Sheindlin's growing reputation for assertiveness inspired Mayor Ed Koch to appoint her to a seat as a judge in family court. As a judge, she continued to blend sympathy for the underdog with withering contempt for the arrogant or devious. Four years later, she was promoted to the position of supervising judge in the Manhattan division of the family court. In , Judy's father, Murray Blum, died at age 70; his death took a remarkable toll on her marriage to Jerry.
They divorced, but a year later, feeling the tug of family ties—aside from her two children and his three, they now had two grandchildren—along with pangs of loneliness, Judy and Jerry remarried. Afterward, she settled firmly into a renewed mission to dispense justice firmly and fairly. In February , Sheindlin was profiled in the Los Angeles Times as a kind of hard-hitting legal super-heroine, determined to make the courts work for the common good.
After her appearance on 60 Minutes , an agent for Judy approached Larry Lyttle, the president of Big Ticket Television, with the idea of doing a courtroom television program. Lyttle agreed and a pilot for the show was shot. After 25 years of practicing in family court and hearing more than 20, cases, Sheindlin retired in But with her fame spreading through newspapers and TV, a whole new incarnation of the straight-talking judge was about to appear.
In September , Judge Judy first appeared in national syndication. The show rapidly established itself as a roaring success, largely based on the strength of Sheindlin's powerful personality. In February , Judge Judy won the No. She even began to edge out Oprah in some major markets, including New York.
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