The Hon. Guy H. Mitchell is a judge for the Criminal Court of the City of New York in New York County. He was appointed to the bench by Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2015.
Mitchell earned a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Brockport in 1988. He then completed a J.D. from Ohio Northern University, Claude W. Pettit College of Law in 1990.
He began his legal career as an assistant district attorney in the Office of the District Attorney of Bronx County in 1991. During his tenure there, he prosecuted homicides and major felony offenses in the trial division of the Violent Crime Bureau. He also served in the Bias Crime Unit. Then, in 1991, he joined the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Justice, where he served as the Chief of the Criminal Division.
Mitchell returned to New York in 2001. He accepted a position as an assistant attorney general in the Office of the New York State Attorney General, where he was placed in charge of the Harlem Regional Office. While there, he managed the civil and criminal prosecution of cases involving consumer fraud, civil rights, investor protection, environmental issues, immigration consultant fraud, and health care matters.
His memberships have included the Black Bar Association of Bronx County and the Dominican Bar Association.
Mitchell was born and raised in Harlem. His father, Napoleon Mitchell, is a Greenburgh community activist who has served on the Greenburgh Police Advisory Board.
He is fluent in Spanish.