For 25 seasons, from September 16, 1996, to July 23, 2021, Judy Sheindlin starred in her eponymous top Nielsen-rated court show, Judge Judy. She 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, she launched the spinoff streaming series Judy Justice on IMDb TV (now Amazon Freevee), another arbitrat