The New York Senate will begin considering Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s choice to preside at the state’s highest court and oversee the judiciary.

Janet DiFiore has been Westchester County district attorney for a decade. If confirmed, she would preside at the seven-member Court of Appeals that often makes case law for New York.

The 60-year-old DiFiore would replace Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, who had to retire this year after turning 70 last year.

DiFiore was also Cuomo’s first appointee to head state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, resigning in 2013.

Cuomo nominated her from a list seven lawyers advanced by a state commission that found them well qualified among 33 applicants.

He has yet to choose a nominee for another vacancy on the top court that followed Judge Susan Read’s retirement.

(AP)