{"id":309417,"date":"2026-07-30T01:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T01:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309417\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T01:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T01:12:15","slug":"courts-event-pairs-aspiring-legal-professionals-with-mentors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309417\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts event pairs aspiring legal professionals with mentors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hon. Troy K. Webber, FHW Commission co-chair, said the program was \u201cabsolutely tremendous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this is something you want to do, take advantage of this terrific mentoring opportunity and do it,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is a one-on-one thing. We pair mentees with sitting judges, attorneys and other practitioners who will interview them, go over their resumes and help them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hon. Joanne D. Qui\u00f1ones, FHW Judicial Mentor Program chair, pointed out that nearly 20 years ago, when she submitted her first judicial application, she sought a mentor through the Commission.<\/p>\n

\"Hon.<\/a>Hon. Rena Malik interacting with an intern. Photo: Wayne Daren Schneiderman\/Brooklyn Eagle<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy mentor helped me navigate every step of the journey,\u201d she recalled. \u201cThat relationship, that experience, is one of the reasons why I believe so deeply in the power of mentorship.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Qui\u00f1ones said that more than one-third of FHW\u2019s mentees have secured judgeships, by election or appointment, within one to three years of being assigned a mentor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Previous mentees\u00a0<\/p>\n

New York City Housing Court Judge Alberto Gonzalez, who was a participant in the FHW program, told the audience that as a young person and child of immigrant parents, he had no connection whatsoever to the Unified Court System.<\/p>\n

\u201cThankfully, there was something like the Franklin H. Williams Judicial Commission\u2019s Judicial Mentor Program that was able to introduce me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Legal Aid Society staff attorney and former FHW legal intern Naya Brown-Yohay said that a court internship gives you something a classroom cannot.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a front-row seat to the justice system. Mentoring is about helping someone become the kind of professional and the kind of person they aspire to be,\u201d she said. \u201cI encourage all of you to seek mentors and remain open to learning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hon. Troy K. Webber, FHW Commission co-chair, said the program was \u201cabsolutely tremendous.\u201d \u201cIf this is something you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,3308,83895,66128,6449,15313,66336,9,24,56086,63,39830],"class_list":["post-309417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-daily-bulletin","tag-employment-jobs-careers","tag-internships","tag-joanne-quinones","tag-legal-community","tag-mentorship","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state-court-system-unified-court-system","tag-nyc","tag-youth-employment-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309417","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=309417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}