Mayor Zohran Mamdani made the first judicial appointments of his tenure, just a few days after issuing an executive order reshaping the review and appointment process for city judges.
Mamdani appointed three new judges to the bench late Monday and reappointed nine sitting judges to the city’s Criminal Courts.
Two of the new judges are former prosecutors Cary Fischer and Natalie Barros, who both have over a decade of experience working as assistant district attorneys across the city. The third new judge, Andrés Casas, spent most of his career as a court attorney in Richmond County and as a litigation attorney for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey…