Civil Court Judge - District 6
Michelle DeSouza-Forte
Democratic
Assistant Corporation Counsel with the New York City Law Department since May 2022.
On the Democratic line in the Nov. 3, 2026 general election.
Professional record
Assistant Corporation Counsel, NYC Law Department · Admitted to the New York bar in 2009
Experience, cases & evaluations →Background
Based in Canarsie, Brooklyn
Before that she ran her own law practice handling wills and estates, real estate, immigration, contracts and civil disputes, and was an associate attorney at Grimaldi & Yeung Law Group.
- Born in Guyana; immigrated to the United States in 1985 at age 15
- Raised in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, in a household of nine children; lives in Canarsie, Brooklyn
- Attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn
- B.A. in political science with a minor in Japanese Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York
- J.D., Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School, where she was a Student Bar Association senator on the Budget and Finance Committee
- Founding member of the Caribbean American Lawyers Association; has served as its second vice president, treasurer and corresponding secretary
- Assigned a mentor in the Franklin H. Williams Judicial Mentoring Program in 2020
- Formerly a member of Community Education Council 18; board president and board member of Battalion Christian Academy
- Received the Caribbean Life Impact Award in 2018
Support
Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn
Assembly Member
Brian Cunningham
Assembly Member
New York Progressive Action Network
Organization
Money
$6K
raised
Top donors: Rudyard Whyte, Pauline Yeung-Ha, Bita Estaki
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