Judge Linda K. Mejias-Glover: Professional Background and Legal Expertise

The Hon. Linda K. Mejias-Glover is a judge on the New York State Court of Claims in Hauppauge. She was appointed to the bench by former Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2021.

Prior to her appointment, Mejias-Glover was a judge on the Nassau County Family Court, a position to which she was elected in 2017. Before that, she spent eight years as a principal law clerk to the Hon. Edward A. Maron and the Hon. Edmund M. Dane of the Nassau County Supreme Court (2009 to 2017).

Mejias-Glover earned a B.A. in Latin American studies and psychology from Wellesley College in 2000. She then completed a J.D. at Columbia Law School in 2004. She was licensed to practice in New York (2005).

After graduating from law school, Mejias-Glover began her legal career as an associate at Carter Ledyard & Milburn in Manhattan. She worked in that capacity until 2005, at which time she became an assistant town attorney for the Town of North Hempstead.

Her memberships have included the Nassau County Women’s Bar Association, the Nassau County Bar Association, the Long Island Hispanic Bar Association, and the Latino Judges Association. She has also been involved with the Long Island Latino Teacher’s Association, Girls, Inc., and the Latina Moms of Long Island, and she has served on the executive board of Latina Moms Connect, Inc., and the board of Herstory Writers Workshop, Inc.

She is a recipient of the Virginia C. Duncombe, Esq. Award from the Nassau County Women’s Bar Association. She was also named Attorney of the Year by the Cuban Civic Association and Rising Star by the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York.

Raised in Nassau County, Mejias-Glover is a graduate of the Waldorf School of Garden City. She is a first-generation American, the daughter of a mother who immigrated to the United States from Ecuador and a father who was exiled from Cuba as a counter-revolutionary leader. Mejias-Glover is fluent in English and Spanish and proficient in German and Italian. She and her husband, Dorian, have one son.