Hon. Tracey A. Bing (ret.)

Hon. Tracey A. Bing (ret.), presided over a child protective (foster care) docket which included neglect, abuse, termination of parental rights, adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, paternity, child support objections and family offense matters in Bronx County Family Court for almost a decade. Judge Bing was the Co-Chair of the Disproportionate Minority Representation Committee at Bronx Family Court. She is currently a consulting attorney with the Department of Education, and owner of Tracey A. Bing Esq., PLLC, a legal consulting firm. Throughout her career she has provided community legal education. She is a frequent law school lecturer, CLE presenter, and adjunct law school professor.

Judge Bing began her legal career as an IOLA Legal Services Fellow at Harlem Legal Services. She created and incorporated a new domestic violence project into the family law unit. She later returned as the Director of the Family Law/Domestic Violence Unit at Manhattan Legal Services (formerly HLS). She supervised and trained attorneys, paralegals, and law school interns in divorce, custody, visitation, support, and family offense matters. She represented parents in administrative expungement hearings at the State Office of Children and Family Services and in child abuse and neglect matters. For several years, she chaired the Upper Manhattan Domestic Violence Services Collaborative, an eleven agency multi-disciplinary community-based model. She also provided grant writing, administrative oversight, and reporting for Federal, State, and City funded contracts. She attended the Undoing Racism workshop and was recruited as a group instructor and presenter for the Management Information Exchange Legal Supervisors training program.

At the Legal Aid Society, as an attorney for children at the Juvenile Rights Division Bronx Office, she represented children, teens and young adults in abuse, neglect, termination of parental rights, custody, adoption, person in need of supervision, family offense, and delinquency matters. As an attorney at the Society’s Community Law Offices, she represented HIV affected clients in civil matters including housing, disability benefits, public benefits, wills and advanced medical directives, consumer law, confidentiality law, and family and matrimonial matters.

She is a current Legal Outreach high school mentor and debate judge. She was a judge for the Thurgood Marshall Middle School Mock trial program, the Georgetown Law School White Collar Crime Moot Court Competition, and the Young Debater Program, she also mentors attorneys and managers. Judge Bing is a member of various associations, including the Judicial Friends, and the New York City, New York State, and Metropolitan Black Bar Associations.

• BA, Stony Brook University
• JD, City University of New York School of Law

• Legal Skills I LAW 622C
• Legal Skills II LAW 622D

• IOLA Legal Services Fellowship
• CUNY Law School Public Interest Law Association Scholarship
• CUNY Law School Child Welfare Fellowship

• CUNY Law School Theodore Kupferman Student Achievement Award
• The New York City Bar Association Legal Services Award
• The New York State Midtown Community Court Dads United for Parenting Program Appreciation Award
• The New York State Department of Health Outstanding Service Award
• The Bronx Family Court Bar Association Jurist Award

Civil Legal Services, Family Law, Matrimonial Law, Child Welfare, Domestic Violence