Harlan Levy
First Deputy Attorney General
Harlan Levy was appointed First Deputy Attorney General on January 1, 2011. From 2000 until his appointment, Mr. Levy was a partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP. Mr. Levy served as an Assistant District Attorney and homicide prosecutor in the office of New York County District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, and as law clerk to Judge Leonard P. Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 2009 through 2011 he served as Chair of the Council on Criminal Justice of the New York City Bar Association. He is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Fund for Modern Courts. Mr. Levy is the author of a noted book about DNA evidence in criminal cases, And the Blood Cried Out (Basic Books/ Harper Collins). He has published articles in The New York Times, The New York Law Journal and Litigation magazine. Mr. Levy is a graduate of Amherst College and Columbia University School of Law.
Terryl Brown
Counsel to the Attorney General
Terryl Brown was appointed Counsel to the Attorney General in January 2011. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Brown served as the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the New York Power Authority (NYPA) for two years. Before joining NYPA, Ms. Brown was Acting Counsel to Governor David A. Paterson, and prior to that served as First Assistant Counsel to Governors Paterson and Spitzer. Before joining the Governor’s Office in 2007, Ms. Brown served as the Assistant Deputy Attorney General of the Division of Public Advocacy in the New York State Attorney General’s Office. In 1998, Ms. Brown was the Deputy Chief of the Civil Rights Bureau, and before that was an Assistant Attorney General in the Litigation Bureau defending actions brought against the state, state agencies and state officials. Ms. Brown worked in private practice and also worked overseas for the Dutch law firm, Nauta Dutilh. Ms. Brown received a B.A. from Pace University, and a J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh.
Nancy Hoppock
Executive Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice
Nancy Hoppock serves as Executive Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice. Ms. Hoppock worked in the United States Attorney’s Office in New Jersey from 2001-2010, where she handled a broad range of federal white collar and violent crime cases, supervising the Government Fraud Unit, then becoming the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, and later the Chief of the Criminal Division. In the latter role, Ms. Hoppock oversaw all seven units with the U.S. Attorney’s Office to include Asset Forfeiture, Organized Crime, General Crimes, Economic Crimes, Health Care Fraud, Narcotics, and National Security. Ms. Hoppock was a recipient of the Department of Justice’s Directors Award for her work on the prosecution of a human trafficking case arising out of Newark, United States vs. Afolabi, et al. A career prosecutor for 16 years, Ms. Hoppock spent seven years as an Assistant District Attorney with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in their trial division. She received her B.A. from the University of Delaware and her J.D. from Seton Hall University.
Martin J. Mack
Executive Deputy Attorney General for Regional Affairs
Martin J. Mack was appointed Executive Deputy Attorney General for Regional Affairs in January 2011. Mr. Mack previously served for eight years as Deputy Attorney General to Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, and as Deputy Secretary for Appointments to Governor David Paterson. Mr. Mack also served as Deputy Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs to Governors Paterson and Spitzer. In addition, he was an Assistant District Attorney in Cortland County from 1980 to 1983, Cortland County Attorney from 1984 to 1987, and Mayor of the City of Cortland from 1988 to 1992. Mr. Mack was a partner in a private law practice for over 18 years, and holds a B.S. degree from Cornell University, a Master of Arts in Teaching from SUNY Cortland, and a J.D. from the University of South Carolina. He is married to Lee Scott-Mack, and they have two children, Sarah and Brennan.
Janet Sabel
Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice
Janet Sabel was appointed Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice in January 2011. Previously, Ms. Sabel was General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer of The Legal Aid Society where she held a number of positions since 1985. At Legal Aid, Ms. Sabel worked as a staff attorney in the Civil Division’s Brooklyn Neighborhood Office; staff attorney in the Civil Appeals and Law Reform Unit, where she worked on federal and class action litigation on disability and health issues; managing attorney of the Lower Manhattan Neighborhood Office and the Society’s Health Law Unit; and Attorney-in-Charge of Legal Aid’s citywide Immigration Law Unit. Ms. Sabel served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Frank M. Coffin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Ms. Sabel received her B.A. from Harvard/Radcliffe College and her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was a Root- Tilden Scholar.
Karla Sanchez
Executive Deputy Attorney General for Economic Justice
Karla Sanchez was appointed Executive Deputy Attorney General for Economic Justice in January 2011. Ms. Sanchez oversees the Economic Justice Division’s five Bureaus, including Antitrust, Consumer Frauds and Protection, Internet, Investor Protection and Real Estate Finance. Immediately prior to joining the Attorney General’s Office, Ms. Sanchez was a litigation partner at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP. She successfully litigated before courts and arbitration panels throughout the country representing both plaintiffs and defendants involving a broad range of products and disciplines, including residential mortgage-backed securities, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, underwater sea cables, and consumer products. She was the first and sole Hispanic partner at Patterson Belknap and has been recognized as one of Crain’s New York Business’s 40 Under Forty. Prior to joining Patterson Belknap, Ms. Sanchez served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Deborah A. Batts, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She received her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law cum laude and Order of the Coif, and an A.B. from Columbia University. Ms. Sanchez is a member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee of the First Department, New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division as well as a member of the Executive Committee for the New York City Bar. She was the former Vice Chair of the Board for LatinoJustice: PRLDEF.
Kent T. Stauffer
Executive Deputy Attorney General of State Counsel
Kent T. Stauffer was appointed Executive Deputy Attorney General for State Counsel in January 2011. Mr. Stauffer was previously an Executive Vice President at Chartis, Inc., following service as Senior Vice President and the Director of Litigation for JPMorgan Chase and its predecessor, Chase Manhattan. Prior to that, he was engaged in trial practice as a partner in the New York City firm of Gordon Hurwitz Butowsky Weitzen Shalov & Wein, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he served as Chief of the Tax and Environmental Units and a member of the Civil Rights Unit, and an associate at the firm of Breed, Abbott & Morgan. Mr. Stauffer previously served as initial co-chair of the In-house/Outside Counsel Litigation Group of the New York City Bar Association, and served as a Director of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest for 19 years, including two years as Chair. Mr. Stauffer received a B.A. in economics from Amherst College, a law degree from Harvard Law School, and a Masters degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Barbara D. Underwood
Solicitor General
Barbara D. Underwood was appointed Solicitor General in January 2007. Prior to her appointment she served as Counsel and as Chief Assistant to the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. From 1998 to 2001 she was the Acting Solicitor General and Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. She has held executive positions in the Queens and Brooklyn District Attorneys’ Offices, and served as a trial attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. She was Professor of Law at Yale Law School, Visiting Professor at New York University School of Law, and Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn Law School. She was a law clerk to Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College and Georgetown University Law Center.