New chief judge appointed for Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings
Mayor Appoints a Brooklyn Resident to Head Office.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle has learned that Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed Fidel Del Valle as commissioner and chief judge of the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH).
“I’m proud to welcome Fidel aboard as our new OATH commissioner and chief judge,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement Wednesday.
The commissioner and chief judge is charged with spearheading OATH, the independent central court responsible for holding more than 400,000 hearings each year and consisting of four tribunals: the OATH Tribunal, the Environmental Control Board (ECB), the OATH Taxi and Limousine Tribunal and the OATH Health Tribunal.
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