Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez. Gonzalez has picked up Nancy Hoppock, a former prosecutor who worked as general counsel and assistant deputy commissioner of the NYPD's Risk Management Bureau, to serve as the chief assistant DA. Hoppock began her legal career in 1994 with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and from there went on to lead the criminal divisions for the New York Attorney General's Office and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey. Tali Farhadian Weinstein, an adjunct professor at New York University Law School, has been hired as the office's general counsel. She has clerked for Chief Judge Merrick B. Garland at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Judge Sandra Day O'Connor. After a stint with the U.S. Department of Justice, Farhadian Weinstein worked as a prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. Gonzalez is also hiring Meg Reiss, who recently headed up the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and who has worked as a prosecutor in Brooklyn and in Nassau County, to serve as the office's director of social justice. Jill Harris, a former public defender who has worked for the Legal Aid Society and who worked on an American Civil Liberties Union campaign to push for state-level criminal justice reforms and to implement strategies for electing progressive prosecutors, will continue working as the Brooklyn DA's policy and strategy counsel. In her roile, Harris is tasked with creating an action plan for making the office a model for prosecutorial reform. In addition to the new hires, Maritza Ming, who was counsel to the DA, is being bumped up to chief of staff, succeeding Leroy Frazer Jr., who is retiring. The DA's executive team will also include Joseph Alexis, who will take the reins of the office's Trial Division; and Renee Gregory, who is taking up a new role as the office's chief diversity officer.