Hassidic Judge, Ruchie Freier

Ruchie Freier won the Democratic primary for a free civil court seat in Boro Park’s 5th district. Freier competed with two candidates, Mordechai Avigdor and Jill Epstein to replace Judge Noah Dear, who won a seat on a state court last year.



Freier is an attorney-at-law with 30 years of experience in the legal field and profession. She began as a legal secretary, then paralegal and then college and law school, while raising her six children. Freier practices commercial and residential property law with offices in Brooklyn and Monroe, NY, sharing her office with her husband and children, as they run a family real estate business.

Ruchie founded an all-female volunteer EMT agency, Ezras Nashim. She became an EMT in 2012 and is now a licensed NYS Paramedic and volunteers in the NYC Family Court and a member of several Bar organizations including the NYS Bar Association Committee.

After graduating Bais Yaakov High School, she worked as a legal secretary and then paralegal while her husband learned in Kollel. Following, she received her BA from Touro College, where she majored in Political Science and then began Brooklyn Law School’s part-time schedule.

After finishing law school, Ruchie founded Chasdei Devorah, Inc., a nonprofit Chesed organization, in memory of her friend who dies young. After that, she formed B’Derech, a nonprofit organization supporting education and opportunity for adolescents in the Chassidic Community.

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