A law clerk Donald Trump once called “embarrassing” won her election Tuesday, making her a New York City judge.
Allison Greenfield, 38, is the chief law clerk to Judge Arthur Engoron, who oversaw Trump’s civil fraud trial in Manhattan last year.
Greenfield, who was frequently disparaged with Trump’s Truth Social posts during the trial, is running to fill one of six seats on Manhattan’s civil court.
The primary was canceled after a local Democratic committee endorsed her in February, paving the way for her to run unopposed. Greenfield will serve a ten-year term.
This comes as Trump defeated Kamala Harris to become president once again, overcoming his many legal troubles, including the case Greenfield helped manage that cost him a whopping $454 million judgment for defrauding lenders on his real estate business.
Allison Greenfield, who just won her election to become a civil judge, sits next to Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron during Donald Trump’s fraud trial.
Trump, photographed on Jan. 11 as the trial wrapped up, frequently attacked Engoron staff throughout the proceedings. Greenfield was sometimes a target
Trump had many confrontations with Greenfield throughout the trial, which began in October 2023 and ended in January 2024.
The first of many came on the second day of the trial, when he took to Truth Social to call her “disgraceful” for working so closely with the judge in the courtroom.
In that October 2023 post, he suggested she was politically biased against him by baselessly calling her the girlfriend of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
He also linked to his personal Instagram account.
While Trump deleted the post, that didn’t stop Engoron from placing a gag order on him to prevent him from speaking publicly about the case or the judge’s staff.
Engoron fined Trump $15,000 twice for violating the order.
In early November, the judge expanded the order, which initially covered only the parties in the case, to include lawyers after Trump’s lawyers complained that Greenfield was passing notes to Engoron.
In a scathing post that is still up on Truth Social, Trump wished all his enemies a happy Thanksgiving.
A screenshot of Trump’s Truth Social post that led the judge to impose a gag order on him
Trump’s Truth Social post ridiculed his long list of enemies, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, Engoron, Greenfield and Joe Biden.
First on his list was the ‘racist and incompetent’ New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the civil fraud case against him.
He called Engoron a “radical leftist judge who hates Trump” and a “psychopath.”
After that, he moved on to Greenfield describing his role in the trial as such: “sitting next to him on the ‘bench’ and telling him what to do.”
Trump’s lawyers accused Engoron of allowing Greenfield to be a “de facto co-judge,” while questioning his political leanings.
Allegations about his alleged anti-Trump bias reached a fever pitch when Breitbart News published a story claiming Greenfield violated court rules by donating to Democratic causes.
Greenfield made two donations in the 2022 election cycle, a year before the trial began. He contributed $15 and $25 to two New York City Council candidates.
Trump lawyer Alina Habba, pictured right, criticized the eventual Engoron ruling as the culmination of a politically motivated “witch hunt.”
Based on this, Trump’s lawyers demanded a mistrial, something Engoron flatly rejected.
At the conclusion of the trial in February, Engoron ordered Trump to pay hundreds of millions in fines, including interest.
Alina Habba, one of Trump’s lawyers, criticized the devastating ruling as the culmination of a politically motivated “witch hunt.”
“This verdict is a manifest injustice, plain and simple,” Alina criticized the decision in a statement provided to DailyMail.com. “It is the culmination of a multi-year, politically driven witch hunt that was designed to ‘overthrow Donald Trump,’ before Letitia James even set foot in the Attorney General’s office.”
Greenfield’s election to civil court, which handles small claims and low-stakes lawsuits, could later allow him to lead the State Supreme Court, New York’s top trial court.
Greenfield studied economics and politics at New York University before earning her law degree from Cardozo Law School in Manhattan in 2010.
