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Merchan became a judge in 2006 when New York City mayor [[Michael Bloomberg]] appointed him to the [[New York Family Court|New York City Family Court]], [[Bronx County]].<ref name=Gold/> He remained in that role until 2009.<ref name="PROFILE"/> Chief Administrative Judge [[Ann Pfau]] appointed Merchan as Acting Justice in the [[Supreme Court of New York]], [[New York County]], Criminal, in 2009, and he has been in that position since that time.<ref name="PROFILE" /> Merchan presides over [[felony]] criminal trials.<ref name="PROFILE" /> Merchan also previously served concurrently as a judge of the [[New York Court of Claims]], being appointed to that role by Governor [[David Paterson]] in 2009 and serving until 2018.<ref name="PROFILE" />
===First criminal trial of
Justice Merchan is the judge in ''[[Prosecution of Donald Trump in New York|The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump]]'', concerning former [[U.S. president]] Donald Trump, who was criminally indicted on 34 felony counts, making Merchan the first judge in history to preside in the criminal indictment of a US President.<ref name="brom">{{cite news |last1=Bromwich |first1=Jonah E. |last2=Rashbaum |first2= William K. |last3=Protess |first3=Ben |last4=Haberman |first4=Maggie |author-link4= Maggie Haberman |title=From President to Defendant: Trump Pleads Not Guilty to 34 Felonies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/nyregion/trump-arraignment-felony-charges.html |access-date=5 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=4 April 2023}}</ref> The [[indictment]] of Trump was delivered by a [[grand jury]] on March 30, 2023.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jacobs |first1=Shayna |last2=Dawsey |first2=Josh |last3=Barrett |first3=Devlin |last4=Alemany |first4=Jacqueline |date=30 March 2023 |title=Trump indicted by N.Y. grand jury, first ex-president charged with crime |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/03/30/trump-ny-indictment/ |work=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=31 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Marritz |first1=Ilya |last2=Bernstein |first2=Andrea |last3=Chappell |first3=Bill |last4=Romo |first4=Vanessa |date=30 March 2023 |title=Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1164766452/trump-indictment-new-york-bragg-stormy-daniels |work=[[NPR]] |access-date=31 March 2024}}</ref> It was unsealed the same day, with Trump pleading not guilty.<ref name=brom/> The jury trial began on April 15, 2024, and on April 30, Merchan held Trump in [[contempt of court]], making him the first judge in history to hold a US President in criminal contempt of court.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Aftergut |first=Dennis |author2=Baron |first2=Frederick |date=April 30, 2024 |title=The Rule of Law Finally Comes for Donald Trump |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/04/trump-criminal-contempt-of-court-historic.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501080224/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/04/trump-criminal-contempt-of-court-historic.html |archive-date=May 1, 2024 |access-date=May 1, 2024 |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]}}</ref>
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