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Prior to her role as Deputy Brook- Owens, who represented the then 11th ing women on welfare earn their high Corporation Counsel, becoming the
lyn Borough President, Lewis-Martin, Congressional District in Brooklyn, school diploma and college degree. first Caribbean-born woman to serve
who was born in Brooklyn, served for and later serving as deputy campaign Lewis-Martin subsequently in that capacity in the City’s history.
more than five years as then-New York manager. served as director of Medgar Evers As Corporation Counsel, Jus-
State Senator Adams’ senior advisor After receiving her license from College’s Progressive Adolescent tice Hinds-Radix will lead the City’s
and for seven years as his chief of staff. the New York City Board of Educa- Vocational Exploration (PAVE) pro- Law Department, which is primarily
“It is an honor to serve this city tion, Adams said Lewis-Martin was gram, which allowed high school stu- responsible for providing legal repre-
and continue working in partnership hired as a middle school teacher in dents to earn a maximum of 12 college sentation to the City, the mayor, other
with Mayor Adams, who has been a English and social studies at I.S. 320 credits within four years. elected officials, and City agencies in
great champion for New Yorkers,” Jackie Robinson, her alma mater. She has also served as a part-time all affirmative and defensive civil liti-
Lewis-Martin said. “We will get stuff She taught at the school from staffer for former New York State As- gation.
done in a truly historic way, reaching 1984 to 1992, also serving as dean of sembly Member Roger Green. Justice Hinds-Radix, who cur-
out to every corner of our commu- students, graduation coordinator, as Adams’ appointment of Lew- rently serves as an Associate Justice
nities and delivering common-sense well as a teacher of modern and Af- is-Martin as chief advisor comes on of the New York State Appellate Di-
leadership that will unlock govern- rican dance in the after-school pro- the heels of his selection of someone vision, Second Department, a position
ment’s full potential.” grams. of Caribbean heritage to a high-profile she was appointed to in 2012, conduct-
Adams said Lewis-Martin’s po- Adams said Lewis-Martin was lat- position in his administration. ed the mayor’s swearing-in ceremony,
litical career started in 1983, first vol- er hired by Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers On Friday, the newly-elected on Jan. 1, at the Times Square New
unteering on the re-election campaign College, first to work as an instructor mayor named Barbadian-born Justice Year’s Celebration in midtown Man-
for the late Representative Major R. in one of its programs geared at assist- Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix as the City’s hattan.

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