Judge Hilary Gingold: Professional Background and Legal Expertise

The Hon. Hilary Gingold is a judge for the Kings County Criminal Court in the Second Judicial District of New York. She was appointed to the Criminal Court in 2019 by the Hon. Lawrence K. Marks, Chief Administrative Judge of the State of New York, after being elected to the Kings County Civil Court the year prior.

She is a registered Democrat.

Judge Gingold graduated with her B.S.W. in social work from Adelphi University School of Social Work in 1982. She went on to earn her J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law in 1985.

After graduating from law school, Gingold entered into private practice, where she practiced as a transactional attorney specializing in real estate and corporate matters. In addition to her private practice, she also worked as an attorney in foreclosure prevention with the non-profit Queens Volunteer Lawyers Project, Inc., a program that is sponsored by the Queens County Bar Association.

In 2011, she left the private arena to join the New York State Unified Court System, where she worked as a principal law clerk with the Queens County Supreme Court until just prior to her election to the Civil Court.

Her memberships have included serving as president of the Network of Bar Leaders and the Queens County Bar Association as well as vice-president of the Brandeis Lawyers Association and the Law Secretaries Association of the City of New York. She has also been a member of the New York Women’s Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers, the New York City Bar Association, the New York City Jewish Lawyers Guild, and the Nassau County Bar Association.