FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has announced he is appointing one of his defense attorneys in the New York hush money case as an adviser to the president.

Alina Habba, 40, defended Trump earlier this year and also served as his legal spokeswoman. Since the election, Habba has been spending time with the president-elect at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

“She was unwavering in her loyalty and unmatched in her determination – she stood by me through numerous ‘trials,’ battles and countless days in court,” Trump posted on his social network Truth Social. “Few understand the weapon of ‘injustice’. System better than Alina.”

Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of crimes when a New York jury found him guilty in May on all 34 counts as part of a plan to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor claimed the two had sex.

During Trump’s first term, Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway held the position of adviser. Habba has Iraqi ancestry and is Chaldean, the largest Christian denomination in Iraq and one of the Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church.

Habba often accompanied Trump on the campaign trail and was one of the speakers at the late October rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden.

On Sunday, Trump also announced that he was bringing back his former aide Michael Anton as director of policy planning at the State Department. Anton was spokesman for the National Security Council from 2017 to 2018.

Trump said he would also nominate Michael Needham, a former chief of staff to Sen. Marco Rubio, as a State Department adviser. The Florida senator was chosen by Trump to be his next secretary of state.