Former Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court Miriam Naor, who spent 38 years in the justice system and served 14 years on the Supreme Court, died Jan. 24. She was 74.

Naor was born in Jerusalem in 1947 and received her law degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1980, she was appointed as a judge on the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, and in 1988 she became a judge in the Jerusalem District Court. She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2003 and served as chief from 2015 to 2017, when she retired.

An array of politicians and government officials expressed sorrow at Naor’s sudden death. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called her “a respected jurist, careful to maintain the required balance between the variety of values in Israeli society, and to strengthen the national and Zionist character of the State of Israel.”