June Witterschein is the Law Department's Director of Professional and Organizational Development, where she creates and implements the Continuing Legal Education curriculum for the Department’s 800+ attorneys. June and her staff are responsible for programming for the professional development of the Department’s employees, and they play an integral role in the agency's diversity, equity and inclusion training programs, and run the Department's Coaching Collaborative. June began her legal career in the Law Department in the Appeals Division, and then served as Deputy Chief of the Legal Counsel Division. In 1990, June left the Department and later served as a law clerk to the then Presiding Judge Sylvia Pressler of the New Jersey Appellate Division. June taught for nine years at Seton Hall University School of Law, before returning to the Law Department in 2003.

June is admitted to practice in the Courts of the State of New York, the US Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the United States Supreme Court. She currently serves on the Mediation Panel of the Southern District of New York. June is also a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.