The Hon. Hannah Cohen is a judge for the New York City Housing Court in Kings County. She was first appointed to the Housing Court bench in 2011 by the Hon. Ann Pfau, former Chief Administrative Judge of the State of New York. Judge Cohen was then reappointed to the seat in 2016 by Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence K. Marks.
She received her B.S. from the University of Maryland. Cohen went on to earn her J.D. from the City University of New York School of Law in 1997.
She began her legal career as an assistant general counsel in the Office of Legal Affairs of the New York City Human Resources Administration in 1998.
The following year, Cohen joined the New York State Unified Court System, where she served as a court attorney for the Housing Court in New York County until her appointment to the bench in 2011.