Miriam (Mimi) Rocah

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 ofNew York (SDNY) for nearly 17 years from 2001-2017 rising to become Chief of the White Plains Criminal Division. Before running for office, Mimi was a Legal Analyst with MSNBC/NBCNews from 2017-19 and is now a frequent commentator on MSNBC, CNN, The Contrarian, and Vox Media, and numerous podcasts and radio shows on topics relating to law, justice, women’s issues and antisemitism, and has written and published dozens of opinion pieces on those topics. She is currently writing a book with Harper Collins Publishing due out next Fall about the political takeover of DOJ. Mimi is a 1997 graduate from New York University School of Law and a 1992 graduate from Harvard University. She is currently an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law.