{"id":144688,"date":"2026-02-25T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144688\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:29:19","slug":"julie-menins-path-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144688\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Menin\u2019s path to power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Julie Menin\u2019s New York City Council now, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/personality\/2026\/02\/julie-menin-always-gets-her-way\/411591\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we profiled the new speaker<\/a> who wants to remake the council in her image. But how did she get here?<\/p>\n<p>1992: After attending Columbia University for undergrad and Northwestern University for law school, Menin begins her professional career as a regulatory attorney at Wiley, Rein &amp; Fielding in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>1995: Menin returns to New York City as a senior regulatory attorney at Colgate-Palmolive.<\/p>\n<p>1999: Menin opens a restaurant, market and catering business called Vine close to where she lives in lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>2001: Just a few months after 9\/11, Menin founds a nonprofit called Wall Street Rising dedicated to helping lower Manhattan recover from the terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>2005: Menin is elected chair of Manhattan Community Board 1 \u2013 a position she\u2019d go on to hold for seven years, navigating Occupy Wall Street and helping spearhead the approval of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York near ground zero.<\/p>\n<p>2013: Menin mounts an unsuccessful run for Manhattan borough president, losing to her now-colleague Gale Brewer.<\/p>\n<p>2014: Then-Mayor Bill de Blasio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/dca\/news\/007-14\/mayor-de-blasio-appoints-julie-menin-commissioner-department-consumer-affairs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">selects Menin to serve as<\/a> the commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs, where she serves for two years.<\/p>\n<p>2016: De Blasio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/nyn-media\/2016\/12\/with-expansion-to-music-and-more-julie-menin-brings-new-era-to-mome\/371740\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appoints Menin to lead<\/a> the Mayor\u2019s Office of Media and Entertainment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2019: Menin is tasked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/20\/nyregion\/julie-menin-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with leading the city\u2019s 2020 census<\/a> effort and in doing so, she takes on the Trump administration, fighting to get a citizenship question removed.<\/p>\n<p>2022: Menin enters the City Council after winning a competitive, open primary on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side.<\/p>\n<p>2026: Menin is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/politics\/2026\/01\/julie-menin-unanimously-elected-city-council-speaker\/410519\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unanimously elected to lead<\/a> the City Council, becoming the first Jewish speaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Julie Menin\u2019s New York City Council now, and we profiled the new speaker who wants to remake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,1057,55452,63,19126],"class_list":["post-144688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-council","tag-new-york-city-hall","tag-nyc","tag-resume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}