BRAD HOYLMAN-SIGAL,  is an American Democratic politician. First elected in 2012, Hoylman-Sigal represents the 47th District in the New York State Senate, covering much of the west side of Manhattan in New York City. He is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In June 2025 he was elected Borough President of Manhattan–the first out LGBTQ Borough President in City history. 

He attended West Virginia University where Hoylman-Sigal was elected president of student administration and graduated summa cum laude with honors. At WVU he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and received a Truman Scholarship and a Marshall Scholarship.

Hoylman-Sigal then attended Oxford University (Exeter College) on a Rhodes Scholarship. He received a master’s degree in political science (M.Phil., 1992). Afterward, he attended Harvard Law School. He graduated with a JD in 1996.

Hoylman-Sigal was an associate at law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison from 1996 to 1998. He was an associate at Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz from 1998 to 2000.

From 2000 to 2012, Hoylman-Sigal served as executive vice president and general counsel of the Partnership for New York City, which represents New York City’s business leadership and its largest private-sector employers.

Hoylman-Sigal was also the chairperson of Community Board 2 in Manhattan, and the Democratic District Leader of the New York 66th Assembly District, Part A. He is also Trustee of the Community Service Society of New York, a former president of the Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats, and a former board member of the Empire State Pride Agenda, Tenants & Neighbors, Class Size Matters, and Citizen Action.

In 2021, Hoylman-Sigal asked U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, the chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, engage in oversight of the United States Center for SafeSport, and step in to ensure that SafeSport is adequately conducting investigations. He referred to what he called SafeSport’s failure to carry out impartial and thorough investigations and ensure the safety of athletes it is charged with protecting. He highlighted serious outstanding allegations of sexual misconduct, sexual coercion, and other violent behaviors by former friends, peers, and current teammates, and an ongoing investigation, and criticized SafeSport’s decision to allow fencer Alen Hadzic to Tokyo as an alternate for the 2021 U.S. Olympic fencing team.

In 2021, City & State ranked Hoylman-Sigal #11 on its annual list of the 100 most powerful people in Manhattan.

In 2021, Hoylman-Sigal proposed legislation to ban landlords convicted of criminal activity from doing business with state-chartered banks. Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Signature Bank and New York Community Bank are not state banks. Steven Croman, a landlord notorious for harassing his tenants in New York, was the inspiration for this bill.

In 2021, to address New York’s housing crisis, Hoylman-Sigal proposed legislation to remove a number of zoning regulations in New York that he viewed as onerous. The legislation would eliminate parking requirements; prohibit localities from requiring large lot sizes for homes; and allow for the construction of up to four housing units on lots that were previously exclusively zoned for single-family housing.

In 2023, Hoylman-Sigal became the New York State Senator for the 47th district, which was redistricted from the 27th district. Hoylman-Sigal’s old district included Chelsea, Midtown, and the East Village, up to north of Columbus Circle. The new and more compact 47th district excluded the East Side and covered the West Side, from Chelsea through the Upper West Side. 

Hoylman married David Ivan Sigal, a filmmaker, at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in Manhattan, New York City, in February 2013. They live with their two daughters, Silvia and Lucy, in Greenwich Village.