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District 5 - Council Member - Democrat ~ Upper East Side's Yorkville, Lenox Hill, Carnegie Hill, Roosevelt Island, Midtown East, Sutton Place, El Barrio in East Harlem - Council Member Julie Menin is an attorney and civic leader with over two decades of experience in the public and private sectors. Julie most recently served as New York City’s Census Director, achieving a historic result where the City finished number one of all major cities. She has served as Commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and as Commissioner of Media and Entertainment. She previously served as a Columbia University adjunct professor teaching on city and state government, preemption, and home rule. Julie chairs the Council’s Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection and co-chairs the Women’s Caucus. Since starting her tenure with the Council, Julie has passed 18 bills of which she was the primary sponsor, including the groundbreaking Healthcare Accountability Act. Her policy wins include advancing universal childcare in New York City, easing burdens on small businesses by instituting a one-shop-stop web portal for all city licenses, codifying the right to reproductive health services, and creating an Office of Healthcare Accountability to rein in excessive prices. At the same time, Julie has effectively addressed a full range of constituent issues: sanitation and rat-mitigation concerns, street safety, unlicensed smoke shops, robust capital funding for district parks and schools, access to low-cost internet for NYCHA residents, and more. Julie resides in Yorkville with her husband and children. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Columbia and received her Juris Doctor from Northwestern University School of Law.
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