Chambers: Room 326, 80 Centre St.
Chambers phone: 646-386-5622
Part phone: 646-386-3273
General IAS Part: 12
Courtroom: 328
Oral Argument: Tuesday, or as otherwise directed
PC/CC: Tuesday, or as otherwise directed
Law Clerk: Rebecca I. Wohl, Esq.
Assistant Law Clerk: Madeline Halimi, Esq.
Justice Stroth presides in the Supreme Court in New York County, Civil Term, following her appointment in 2021. She was elected to the Civil Court of the City of New York in 2017 and was designated as a Criminal Court Judge in Bronx County for two years before returning to New York County Civil Court. Prior to her election to the Civil Court bench, Justice Stroth served as a Housing Court Judge pursuant to her appointment in 2013 by Chief Administrative Judge Gail A. Prudenti.
Justice Stroth began her lifelong career in public service as a Public Defender in The Legal Aid Society’s New York County Criminal Defense Division, where she worked for eleven years. She then spent seven years as an Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the New York State Attorney General, litigating civil matters for the State of New York. Before being appointed to the Housing Court bench, where she presided over residential landlord/tenant disputes in the Bronx and Brooklyn, she served for seven years as a Court Attorney in the Housing Part in Manhattan. While serving as a court attorney in the Housing Court, she also volunteered as a Small Claims Arbitrator and assisted unrepresented litigants with their consumer debt cases in the NYC Civil Court.
Justice Stroth is the District Two Director and Finance Chair for the National Association of Women Judges, President of the Association of Civil Court Judges, and Treasurer and Executive Board member of the Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert.
Through her work in these judicial associations and as a member of the New York City Supreme Court’s Equal Justice Committee, Gender Fairness Committee, and Working Group on Racial Equity in New York City Courts, Justice Stroth has demonstrated her commitment to achieving equal justice in the courts. She is an active member in several bar associations (NY City Bar, NYCLA, NY Women’s Bar, Puerto Rican Bar, Jewish Lawyers Guild), all of which are committed to diversity and equity in the New York Court system. Justice Stroth is a lifetime member of the NAACP.
Justice Stroth received her Juris Doctor, with honors, from the University at Buffalo School of Law in 1986 and her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, with honors, from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1981.