Supreme Court Justice - District 13
Kelvin Richards
Democratic
Public defender with the Legal Aid Society on Staten Island since 2013.
On the Democratic line in this election.
Professional record
Legal Aid Society public defender · Admitted to the bar in New Jersey (2012) and New York (2013)
Experience, cases & evaluations →Background
Age 44
Before that he worked in Minnesota as a law clerk and as a certified student prosecutor.
- Born in Monrovia, Liberia; spent much of his childhood in a refugee camp in Ghana after civil war broke out
- Moved with his family to Staten Island after high school and lived in public housing after arriving in New York
- B.A., College of Staten Island, 2008
- J.D., William Mitchell College of Law, 2012
- Volunteered on Barack Obama's presidential campaign
- Appointed in 2020 as a committee co-chair of the New York State Bar Association's Task Force on Police Reform and Racial Injustice
- Ran in the 2021 Democratic primary for New York City Council District 49
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