Read our ongoing coverage of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial here.

Jury selection continued on Tuesday in the People of New York v. Trump. By the end of the day, the court had selected the first seven jurors who will decide former President Donald Trump’s fate in the case involving hush money payments to the adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Several jurors were eliminated after Trump attorney Todd Blanche confronted them with old Facebook posts that either intimated distaste for Trump or outright said as much. Most of these jurors were eliminated via peremptory challenge by the Trump legal team, though a few were eliminated for cause—including one who had posted on Facebook “get him out and lock him up” about Trump in response to the former president’s Muslim travel ban.

The jurors that remained are a diverse group. It may have been impossible to see their faces from the overflow room where I (and most of the press corps) watched jury selection, but we still learned a whole lot about these men and women who will sit in judgment of a former president in the first such criminal trial in U.S. history.

Here is a quick primer on the jurors, who are anonymous.

Juror No. 1, foreperson

Juror No. 1 was also selected as the foreperson, meaning he will preside over jury deliberations and act as the communicator with the court. He gave some of the most anodyne answers to the 42-part questionnaire and direct voir dire. According to pool descriptions, Juror No. 1 showed up to court on Monday in a black T-shirt and carrying a black backpack. He is from Ireland but now lives in West Harlem. Juror No. 1 is married, with no kids, and said he gets his news from the New York Times, the Daily Mail, Fox News, and MSNBC. (The first and fourth responses may be why the prosecution was OK with having him on the jury; the second and third answers may be why the defense was.) During individual voir dire, Juror No. 1 was brief and to the point. When asked what he knew or thought of some of the other Trump criminal cases, Juror No. 1 replied, “I’ve heard of some of them, yeah.” When asked if he had an opinion of them, he said, “None at all.” This might have been what landed this juror the foreperson job.

Juror No. 2

Juror No. 2 is a native New Yorker and oncology nurse who lives on the Upper East Side with her fiancé and dog. She gets her news from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Google. When asked if she would accept evidence and give it due weight even if it comes from witnesses with questionable backgrounds—such as a tabloid publisher, a former adult film star, and a lawyer like Michael Cohen who has changed his story—she responded: “I’m going to say no. I’m going to listen to all the facts. Whatever outside influences there are, they’re not going to influence me here.” When asked by Blanche as to whether she had any opinions of President Trump, she responded, “I don’t really have one especially, in this court room. I think he should be treated as anyone else and nobody is above the law.” When pressed on that question, she did not give an answer about Trump but said “I’m here for my civic duty and not let anything persuade me either way.”

Juror No. 3

Juror No. 3 is an unmarried man without kids, described by the pool as “an Asian man with black hair” in his late 20s or 30s “wearing a purple jacket.” Juror No. 3 works as a corporate attorney, lives in Chelsea, likes outdoorsy activities, and gets his news from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Google. During individual voir dire, Juror No. 3 told prosecutors that he understood that you “don’t need to read somebody’s mind” as a juror to discern criminal intent, which will be a giant crux of the district attorney’s case. “I’m not super familiar with the other charges,” Juror No. 3 responded when asked about the other criminal cases against Trump. “I don’t really follow the news that closely, unfortunately.” It was quite fortunate for the court, which is looking for exactly this sort of juror.

Juror No. 4

This is perhaps the most interesting character of the entire seated jury so far. Juror No. 4 is Puerto Rican–born but has lived on the Upper West Side for 40 years. He went to college for a single year, works in IT, and without prompting, joked that he has been married “a long time.” He reads the New York Daily News, the New York Times, Google, and X. “I guess my hobby is my family,” he said. Though Juror No. 4 had previously served on a jury, he did not remember because it was “so long ago.” When asked about his opinion of Trump, Juror No. 4 said “I find him fascinating,” which drew laughter in the press overflow room. “He walks into a room and he sets people off one way or the other. Really this one guy can do all of this? Wow!”

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Juror No. 5

Juror No. 5 is a Harlem-born-and-raised school teacher. According to the pool reporters, she is a Black woman in her late 20s. She previously worked as a case worker in a juvenile delinquent transitional home and her boyfriend coaches a basketball team. She listens to “inspirational pop culture” podcasts and sometimes Breakfast Club. As for how her opinion of Trump might impact her ability to serve as a juror, she responded “there was a divide in this country, I can’t ignore that.” But she said “I never equated that to one individual” and that she can be impartial. Juror No. 5 was the only one who raised her hands when the jurors were asked if they hadn’t heard of Trump’s other criminal cases. When asked if she could give Trump a fair shake and “start off at zero,” she cut off Todd Blanche to say, “I don’t think it’s difficult.” Blanche then asked her to expand on her opinion of Trump. “My response is always, President Trump speaks his mind,” she said. “You’d rather that than the alternative.”

Juror No. 6

Juror No. 6 is a native New Yorker who lives in Chelsea and works as a software engineer. She’s a snowboarder and also dances as a hobby. Juror No. 6 gets her news from the New York Times, Google, Facebook, and TikTok. When asked whether she had “any strong opinions or firmly held beliefs about former President Donald Trump,” Juror No. 6 audibly laughed, indicated yes, then added “but I will be fair and impartial.”

Juror No. 7

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Juror No. 7 lives on the Upper East Side and is originally from North Carolina. He is a Big Law civil litigator. According to the pool report, he presents as “white—tanned—and in his late middle age.” He is balding with close-cropped hair and wears glasses. He reads the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, and Washington Post and listens to WNYC and the podcasts SmartLessand Car Talk. When asked if his expertise as a lawyer would influence his ability to serve as a juror in this case—basically whether or not he’d override the judge’s rulings about the law with his own feelings about them—he responded that he’d “follow the judge’s instructions.” “I’m a civil litigator which means I know virtually nothing about criminal law,” he conceded. As for his opinion of Trump, Juror No. 7 said, “I don’t know the man and I don’t have any particular opinions about him personally.” He liked some of Trump’s policies and didn’t like others. “I certainly follow the news, I am certainly aware that there are other lawsuits out there,” Juror No. 7 said. “I’m not sure I really know anything about his character.”

Update, April 17, 2024: Some potentially identifying details about the jurors have been removed. 

Correction, April 17, 2024: Due to an editing error, display text on this article originally misstated that two of the seven jurors were born outside of the U.S. Only one was not born in the U.S.

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