About Judy Sheindlin
Judith Susan Sheindlin (née Blum; born October 21, 1942) also known as Judge Judy, is an American attorney, jurist, court-show arbitrator, and television producer. For 25 seasons, from September 16, 1996, to July 23, 2021, Sheindlin starred in her eponymous top Nielsen-rated court show, Judge Judy. Sheindlin became the longest-serving television arbitrator in courtroom-themed programming history, a distinction that earned her a place in the Guinness World Records in 2015. She received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 2019 for her work. On November 1, 2021, Sheindlin launched the spinoff streaming series Judy Justice on IMDb TV (became Amazon Freevee in 2022 before it was discontinued in 2025, merging with Prime Video), another arbitration-based reality court show in which she handles legal disputes. After winning the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program in 2022 for the first season of Judy Justice, she became the only television arbitrator to have won the award for more than one court show: three for Judge Judy and one for Judy Justice. This led to her first book, Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining, published in 1996.
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