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New York City Mayor Eric Adams has celebrated the confirmation of Muriel Goode-Trufant, his pick for New York City’s 82nd corporation counsel, by the New York City Council in a 41-7 vote. Goode-Trufant has spent more than 30 years at the New York City Law Department, where she has served as acting corporation counsel since this summer.
“Muriel Goode-Trufant’s deep legal expertise and decades of experience as a public servant have made her fully prepared to serve our entire city government and help lead New York City forward in her new role as the city’s chief lawyer,” said Mayor Adams. “Thank you to my colleagues in the City Council for their fair and timely consideration of such a supremely qualified and capable nominee.”
“It is an honor to serve as New York City’s 82nd corporation counsel and to lead the finest public law office in the country,” said Corporation Counsel Goode-Trufant. “I thank both Mayor Adams and the City Council for nominating and confirming me for this position. I look forward to continuing my work with the dedicated members of the Law Department, who embody the principles of fairness and justice as they work to further the interests of the city.”
As corporation counsel, Goode-Trufant will lead the Law Department, which is primarily responsible for providing legal representation to the City of New York — including 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. Goode-Trufant replaces Judge Sylvia Hinds-Radix, who retired this spring.
Trufant began her career at the New York City Law Department 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.
