Cecile Noel

Cecile Noel was appointed Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office to End Domestic Violence and Gender-Based Violence (ENDGBV) in October 2015. The Office was established by New York City Charter in 2001, and its responsibilities and authority to address intimate partner violence and elder abuse were expanded by Executive Order 36 of 2018, to include sexual assault, stalking, family violence, human trafficking and female genital mutilation/cutting. 

ENDGBV develops policies and programs, provides training and prevention education, conducts research and evaluations, and performs community outreach. The Office collaborates with City agencies and community stakeholders to ensure access to inclusive services for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence and oversees the NYC Family Justice Centers (FJCs) that operate in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island, which receive over 62,000 client visits annually. After almost ten years of service to this Agency, Cecile Noel retired from ENDGBV in August 2024.

In her prior position as the Executive Deputy Commissioner for the Human Resources Administration (HRA) Emergency Intervention Services, Commissioner Noel managed programs with a total operating budget of $200 million, in addition to over 500 staff. Under her leadership, expansions were accomplished in both residential and non-residential services for domestic violence survivors across the network of 52 New York City-funded domestic violence shelters. She launched one of the first school-based domestic violence prevention programs in the country, the Teen Relationship Abuse Prevention Program (RAPP), which now operates in 100 New York City public schools. In addition to HRA’s domestic violence programming, Commissioner Noel had oversight for the Emergency Food Assistance Program (EFAP), the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), and the Low-Income Utility Assistance Programs. Commissioner Noel also led the HRA Crisis and Disaster program and Adult Protective Services (APS) programs. 

Commissioner Noel also served as Director at the Office of Prison Health and Special Patient Services for New York City Health and Hospital Corporation (HHC) where she was the lead negotiator with budgetary and planning responsibility for the NYC municipal hospitals prison health program. Additionally, she had oversight of the system-wide domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault and elder abuse programs.

Commissioner Noel is a graduate of Vassar College and holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work Administration from Columbia University. She is also an adjunct professor in the School of

Social Work at Hunter College.