Janice P. Purvis
Court Attorney Referee, Kings County Supreme Court · Admitted to the New York bar in 2003
Won the Democratic primary on June 23, 2026; also on the Working Families Party line, whose June 23, 2026 primary was canceled and from which she advanced without appearing on a primary ballot.
Full profile →Court Attorney Referee in the Law Department of Kings County Supreme Court and, since June 2012, a Special Referee for uncontested divorce matters. Before that she was an assistant law clerk in New York County Supreme Court, a litigation associate at a private firm and an adjunct professor at New York Law School.
Career & documented work
Court Attorney Referee in the Law Department of Kings County Supreme Court.
Janice Purvis for Civil Court Judge (campaign website) ↗Special Referee for uncontested matrimonial matters, reviewing and signing uncontested divorces; designated by Chief Administrative Judge Gail Prudenti on June 28, 2012.
Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn — Janice Purvis candidate questionnaire ↗Aug. 2010–May 2012
Adjunct law professor at New York Law School.
Janice Purvis for Civil Court Judge (campaign website) ↗Litigation associate at a private law firm handling state and federal corporate securities actions and commercial litigation.
Janice Purvis for Civil Court Judge (campaign website) ↗Assistant Law Clerk to Justice Rosalyn Richter, New York County Supreme Court, Civil Term — the start of her legal career.
Janice Purvis for Civil Court Judge (campaign website) ↗Judicial intern to Judge Harold Baer Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Janice Purvis for Civil Court Judge (campaign website) ↗Research assistant to American Civil Liberties Union President Nadine Strossen.
Janice Purvis for Civil Court Judge (campaign website) ↗
Bar admission & conduct
- Bar admission
Admitted 2003 · New York Law School
NYS Attorney Registrations (data.ny.gov) — registration of Janice Patricia Purvis ↗
