Andrew J. Windsor

Andrew is a proud graduate of our New York City public schools. While attending P.S. 229 in Dyker Heights and I.S. 259 in Bay Ridge, Andrew was active in the band and theatre. At almost 14 years of age, Andrew declined an offer at specialized high schools and chose his mother's alma mater, New Utrecht High School, where he wrestled for three years, painted murals with a team of students, and led the talent and multi-cultural productions.

While elected president of his nearly 700-person senior class, Andrew partnered with the school administration to create the school's first mascot in a century and offered the first over-night trip in many years. After graduating high school in 2015, he was appointed by a New York City Councilman to his local community board where he continues to serve today.

In August 2015, Andrew entered CUNY Baruch College. As an undergraduate, he spent half of his career as one of 15 representative senators in the Undergraduate Student Government; he was elected to represent 1,000 students and voted on allocating a $500,000 budget to clubs. He also successfully sought signatures from over 1,500 students to amend the constitution and created an action for impeachment of representatives who failed to attend meetings. When not elected to the Senate, he spent the other half of his undergraduate career at Baruch working for the student-run newspaper, The Ticker, as a distributor, copy editor and correspondent. 

Andrew worked as a file clerk during all six semesters of college for the  boutique law firm of Georgaklis & Mallas PLLC in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. In 2016, he volunteered in Iowa and Kentucky for get-out-the-vote activities on Senator Rand Paul's presidential and re-election campaigns. In May 2018, Andrew graduated with his Bachelors of Art in political science and history one year in advance with cum laude honors. Upon graduating, he was blessed with the Colin Powell Fellowship in International Diplomacy, spending the summer of 2018 interning for the Office of the White House Liaison at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC. 

After entering Cardozo Law in the fall of 2018, Andrew was elected as Senator to represent second-year law students and served as President of the Cardozo Federalist Society. He was active in lobbying for a bill in the NYC Council and led volunteer events. He has served as Vice President of the Brooklyn Young Republican Club and led the Brooklyn Republican Youth Initiative, a precursor to the Brooklyn Young Republican Society, under the Kings County GOP. 

Andrew worked as a legal intern at the New York City Office of Administrative Trials & Hearings and the New York City Board of Elections, learning how our leaders get elected and lobby fines on everyday people. He served as President of his law school student government  where he worked with school administration and government officials to facilitate the transition to online learning and the successful hosting of in-person graduation ceremonies. 

After graduating in the midst of the pandemic, Andrew started his legal career fighting government fines and defending low-income homeowners against the New York City Department of Buildings by volunteering his services with the non-profit legal organization Access Justice Brooklyn (formerly known as the Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project). Always looking to make the American Dream come true, Andrew was a real estate attorney at the Bay Ridge law firm of Georgaklis & Mallas PLLC, helping the dream of homeownership come true for others in Brooklyn.

Andrew has spent time in our state’s capital, Albany, as Associate Counsel to the New York Senate Republicans, where he navigated complex legislative landscapes pertaining to gaming law, government contracts, and election law changes. Andrew became familiar with municipal bonds and debt as projects were brought before the Public Authorities Control Board (PACB) for 11 statewide Public Authorities including the MTA.