Mayor Adams Announces the Intention to Nominate Muriel Goode-Trufant to Serve as New York City's Corporation Counsel

October 1, 2024

NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced his intention to nominate Muriel Goode-Trufant as the city’s next corporation counsel. Goode-Trufant is a longtime public servant, having spent more than 30 years in the New York City Department of Law, where she has served as acting corporation counsel since this summer. As corporation counsel, Goode-Trufant will lead the New York City Department of Law, which is primarily responsible for providing legal representation to the City of New York — for the Mayor’s Office, the Public Advocate’s Office, the Comptroller’s Office, city agencies, and the City Council — in all affirmative and defensive civil litigation. 

“I am excited to announce my intention to nominate of Muriel Goode-Trufant as New York City’s next corporation counsel,” said Mayor Adams. “Muriel’s record speaks for itself — a dedicated public servant with more than 30 years of experience at the Law Department, a recipient of the agency’s highest honor, and a lawyer who has fought for equity and justice. As our next corporation counsel, Muriel is prepared to serve our entire municipal government and use the full power of our legal system to lead our city forward.”

“I am humbled and honored by the intention to be nominated by Mayor Adams to serve as the city’s next corporation counsel,” said New York City Corporation Counsel Nominee Muriel Goode-Trufant. “Through my more than three decades as an attorney at the New York City Law Department, I am keenly aware of the vital role the corporation counsel plays in New York City government.”

Muriel Goode-Trufant will replace Judge Sylvia Hinds-Radix, who stepped down from her post at the end of May. Judge Hinds-Radix led the Department of Law since January 2022.  

About Muriel Goode-Trufant

Muriel Goode-Trufant began her career at the New York City Department of Law in 1991 as an attorney in the General Litigation Division where she held numerous roles, including assistant chief of the division. She later became the agency’s Equal Employment Opportunity officer and rose to the position of chief in the Special Federal Litigation Division.

Goode-Trufant became the Law Department’s managing attorney in 2015 and first assistant corporation counsel in 2023.

Before working for the city, she was an associate at the Philadelphia law firm Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Shiekman and Cohen.

Goode-Trufant has won numerous legal awards, including the Law Department’s highest honor, the Corporation Counsel’s Award for Distinguished Legal Service, in 2011.

Goode-Trufant is a graduate of Temple University School of Law and the University of Pennsylvania.

Under the City Charter, the nominee for corporation counsel must be confirmed by the City Council.

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