Kristen Wilson has been serving as Corporation Counsel for Rye since 2010. Ms. Wilson arrived in Rye after working as a deputy attorney for Kevin Plunkett at the law firm of Harris Beach PLLC.

Ms. Wilson’s appointment to the position of Corporation Counsel was almost simultaneous to Mayor Doug French’s promotion of Scott Pickup to City Manager. Throughout the French administration, Ms. Wilson has played an instrumental role in controlling the public’s access to the city’s public information records by way of Freedom of Information Law Requests (FOILs). Her method essentially was to serve as the City’s records access officer on the initial FOIL requests, while simultaneously serving as the appellate body for appeals, which is a violation of New York State FOIL law.

While City Manager Pickup resigned under pressure in April of 2014, Ms. Wilson remains as the city’s Corporation Counsel, pending a performance review at a time to be determined.