Miriam E. Rocah

Adjunct Professor of Law

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Miriam E. Rocah (Mimi) was elected as District Attorney of Westchester County, New York in November 2020 through a grassroots campaign against an incumbent. During her four years as DA, she modernized the DA’s Office, aggressively pursued gun and violent crime, developed ways to better serve crime victims, and instituted sensible criminal justice reforms.

Prior to becoming DA, Mimi served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) for nearly 17 years from 2001-2017 rising to become Chief of the White Plains Criminal Division. As an AUSA, she prosecuted and oversaw cases involving violent crime, organized crime, human trafficking, sex trafficking, child exploitation, frauds and public corruption and co-chaired task forces on opioids and fentanyl and sex trafficking.

Before running for office, Mimi was a Legal Analyst with MSNBC/NBC News from 2017-19 and is now a frequent commentator on MSNBC, CNN, The Contrarian, Vox Media, and numerous podcasts and radio shows on topics relating to law, justice, women’s issues and antisemitism. She has written and published dozens of opinion pieces on those topics. She is an expert in the rule of law, democracy and the corruption and abuse of the justice system and is currently writing a book with Harper Collins Publishing due out next Fall. Mimi is currently an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law.

Education

Ms. Rocah graduated with a B.A. in American History from Harvard University in 1992 magna cum laude and from New York University School of Law in 1997 magna cum laude and a member of the Order of the Coif. She clerked for Judge John Gleeson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and Judge Chester J. Straub of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She was also a litigation associate at the law firm Cravath, Swaine and Moore.