Judge Judy Officially Retiring From TV After 30 Years: ‘I Don’t Have to Prove Anything Else’: After 25 years of "Judge Judy" and several seasons of "Judy Justice," Judy Sheindlin has confirmed that she's stepping down from the bench.
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-Judge Judy is officially hanging up her robe and taking a step back from being in front of the camera after 30 years.
-Her first series premiered on September 16, 1996, and concluded on July 23, 2021 for a total of 25 years and 6280 episodes. By the end of her tenure of Judge Judy she was pulling in $47million annually.
-She would go on to Amazon to launch Judy Justice for a cool $25million annually, becoming one of their most watched programs and running for 4 seasons for a total of 495 episodes.
-Judy also launched a spin-off Hot Bench that ran for 12 seasons, Tribunal Justice that ran for 2 seasons and starred her son, and now Adams Law once again starring her son but this time as a solo judge.
