The New York City court clerk, who was attacked by former President Donald Trump during his business fraud trial, is running unopposed to be a judge of a Manhattan civil court.
Allison Greenfield, 41, received unanimous endorsement from the Democratic County Committee for judgeship in the New York Civil Court on Tuesday.
“I’m honored and humbled to have received the County Committee’s endorsement. I look forward to presenting my qualifications to all Manhattan residents,” she told The Spirit, a local NYC outlet.
Greenfield first popped into the news after the former president accused her of being a biased “co-judge” to New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, who presided over Trump’s civil fraud trial in Manhattan.
She has served as Engoron’s clerk for five years and the judge placed a limited gag order on Trump after he began attacking Greenfield and calling her “Chuck Schumer’s girlfriend.”
After receiving the nomination, Greenfield will run as a Democrat on the ballot in November and the civil court judge spot rarely runs opposed.
She had previously been called the “most highly qualified” – alongside several others – by the Civil Court Independent Judicial Screening Committee on Feb. 1 by Manhattan Democrats.
Greenfield graduated from NYU before heading on to Manhattan’s Cardozo Law School, which is part of Yeshiva University.
She worked as a senior counsel in the special litigation unit for the NYC Law Department from 2013 to 2018 before joining the New York State Unified Court System under Engoron.
She’s also worked for law firm Jaffe & Asher and was an adjunct professor at Cardozo, according to her LinkedIn.
In November, Trump filed a motion claiming that Greenfield and Engoron had “overwhelming” bias after the NYU grad was seen whispering and passing notes to the judge throughout the weeks-long trial.
“As I have made clear over the course of this trial, my rulings are mine and mine alone. There is absolutely no ‘co-judging’ at play,” Engoron said in a November decision.
But Trump’s team argued that Engoron had sent out articles about the case in a college newsletter numerous times and that Greenfield had made political contributions to Democratic groups, including ones that support AG Letitia James, who is prosecuting the case.
Engoron said the accusations were “without merit.”
