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Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney Christopher D. Horn
Christopher D. Horn is currently the Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney with the Albany County District Attorney's Office. Horn graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts
Degree in English. He received his Juris Doctor Degree from Cardozo Law
School in Manhattan in 1993. After having interned with the Albany County
District Attorney’s Office from 1991 thru 1994, Mr. Horn was hired as an
Assistant District Attorney in the Appeals Bureau upon his admission to the New
York State Bar in January of 1994. In 2001, Mr. Horn was promoted to
Chief of the Appeals Bureau. In 2005, Mr. Horn was named Bureau Chief of
the newly formed Legal Affairs Bureau. In 2007, in addition to his role
as Bureau Chief, Mr. Horn was asked to serve as Special Counsel to the District
Attorney. In addition to managing the operation of the Legal Affairs
Bureau and advising the District Attorney on policy and legal matters, Mr. Horn
currently represents the office at meetings of the Legislative and Appellate
Subcommittees of the New York District Attorneys Association. Mr. Horn
has also served on the New York Prosecutors Training Institute’s (N.Y.P.T.I.)
advisory panel for development of a statewide Prosecutor’s Case Management
System (P.C.M.S.). As part of their In-Service Training programs, Mr.
Horn provides training for the Albany Police Department and other local police
agencies. For many years, Mr. Horn has actively participated in the Legal
Lives program, in which members of the office teach 5th and 6th graders
about the criminal justice system and help them to make responsible life
decisions.
In early 2015 Christopher Horn was awarded with the Robert Morgenthau Award from the District Attorney's
Association of New York State.