JUSTICE YVONNE LEWIS
Kings County Supreme Court

Justice Yvonne Lewis graduated from State University of New York, College at Geneseo, with a Bachelor of Science in Education in Secondary Social Studies. As a result, she taught in Buffalo high schools and did social work for the Erie County Welfare Department. Returning to school three years after college, she received her Juris Doctor from the University of Buffalo, School of Law and Jurisprudence.

She worked with Legal Services in several offices as a Staff Attorney, Unit Director, Director of Litigation and Managing Attorney. Additionally, she served with the Legal Services Corporation to assist legal services offices both in compliance and technical assistance for the provision of services. Before going on the bench, Justice Lewis also taught as a Charles H. Revson fellow at City University of New York, City College, and an Assistant Clinical Professor at Hofstra Law School. She was elected to the Civil Court (Kings County) in 1986 - the first African-American female to sit in that Court in Kings County and to the Supreme Court Bench in 1991.

She is currently on the Franklin H. Williams Judicial Commission on Minorities, president of The Judicial Friends, a member of the Judicial Council of the National Bar Association, National Conference of Black Lawyers, the Metropolitan Black Bar Association (Board of Directors), Association of Black Women Attorneys, Advisory Committee of Judicial Ethics, National Lawyers Guild, National and State Associations of Women Judges (Board of Directors), the Brooklyn Women's Bar Association, Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center (Board of Directors), The Nathan R. Sobel Kings County American Inn of Courts, Brownstoners of Bedford Stuyvesant, The Macon - Throop Block Association, National Council of Negro Women, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She is actively involved in the Kings County Black History Month Committee. Justice Lewis has coordinated several panel and workshop discussions on the issues of race and racism for the New York State Judicial Seminars and the Winter Roundtable at Teacher’s College. She has been a long time supporter and has hosted numerous presentations by 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care.

Justice Lewis is presently assigned to Parts 32, 1CL and 76H, at the Kings County Supreme Court, located at 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, 11201; 347-296-1473. 

Updated February 27, 2008