The former aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Linda Lacewell, will be nominated superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, according to the governor's press office.

Her nomination comes after Maria Vullo announced that she would step down as the superintendent on Feb. 1.

Lacewell spent nine years as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York and served as counselor to Cuomo during his time as the governor and as a special counsel during his term as New York attorney general.