In an historic vote, New York City Council has voted unanimously to confirm Caribbean-born jurist Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix as the city’s new corporation counsel.
By voting 51-0, the Council on Thursday created history in making Barbadian Hinds-Radix the first Caribbean-born woman to serve in that capacity in New York City’s history.
As Corporation Counsel, Hinds-Radix, whose last position was associate justice of the New York State Appellate Division, Second Department, will lead the City’s Law Department, which is primarily responsible for providing legal representation to the city, the mayor, other elected officials, and City agencies in all affirmative and defensive civil litigation.
In early January, newly-elected New York City Mayor Eric Adams appointed Justice Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix as the City’s Corporation Counsel.
Justice Hinds-Radix, who was appointed Associate Justice of the New York State Appellate Division, Second Department in 2012, conducted the Mayor’s swearing-in ceremony, on Jan. 2, 2022, at the Times Square New Year’s Celebration in midtown Manhattan.
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