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County/ District Candidates Position Candidate Information Borough New York Judge of the 4th Municipal Lynne Fischman Uniman Background: Counseling and litigating, ranging from Civil Court - Court District risk mitigation, to legal expenses, antitrust law, District (D) banking, breach of contract, employment, class actions, fine art, fraud, trademark, professional malpractice, trusts and estates; Endorsements: Representative Carolyn Maloney, Assemblymember Dan Quart, Lexington Democratic Club E. Grace Park Endorsements: Assemblymember Harvey Epstein, Assemblymember Richard Gottfried, Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou, City Council Member Carlina Rivera, City Councilmember Mark Levine New York Male District Assembly District Jonathan Gardenhire Background: artist and cultural producer focusing on Leader (D)65 race and sexuality; Policies: monitor overdevelopment, Part B confront increasing rents, affordable public housing Andrew W. Ford II Assembly District Manuel Onativia Background: Incumbent Male District Leader (D) 68 Harry Rodriguez Part B Assembly District Corey Ortega Background: founded the West Harlem Progressive 70 Democratic Club with Jamaal Nelson, formerly Judicial Part D Delegate of the New York Democratic Party, currently Director of Civic & Government Affairs for the NYC Veterans Alliance; Policies: increase youth involvement in the Democratic Party Luis Johnson Assembly District Matthew Bond Background: experience in tenant's rights organizing, 75 currently the Lower Manhattan Branch Representative Part A for the NYC Democratic Socialists of America Steering Committee Steven D. Skyles-Mulligan New York Female Assembly District Daisy Paez Background: incumbent District Leader District65 Leader Diana Aldahondo Background: currenly NYCHA Vice President of the (D) Part B Residence Association; Policies: public and affordable housing for all, end gentrification by funding public housing and fighting overreaching real estate development Assembly District Pamela Davis 68 Theresa Richardson Part A Hilda Solomon Assembly District Antoinette D. Glover 68 Peggy A. Morales Part B Assembly District Alicia Barksdale 70 Norma Campusano Part D Gricel Ortiz-Thompson Assembly District Jasmin Sanchez 74 Aura Olavarria Part A Assembly District New York Delegate to 74 Group 1 (Melba Espailat, Judicial Part A Adriano Casimiro, Leo Convention Glickman, Guillermo A. Perez, (D) Jenny Garcia, Juan A. Erazo, Jay D. Mazur, Luis Ducasse, Richard Allman, Laurie Tobias- Cohen, Orlando R. Ovalles, Antonio Hasburn, Julio Negron, Bienvenido Lara, Luz Batista, Evangelina Fermin) New York Delegate to Judicial Convention (D) County/ District Candidates Position Candidate Information Borough Group 2 (Earnestine Bell Temple, Juana H. Luna, Johanna Garcia, Yvonne Marshall Andre, Maria A. Luna, Bruce Robertson, Larry Temple, Romula A. Jimenez, Jackie Rowe Adams, Anna Gibson, Hugh Stroud, Edith M. Prentiss, Rita Miller, Amy Slattery, Para Lee Bloomfield, Juan Rosa) Assembly District Group 1 (Elizabeth Pepin, 72 Jackeline Deluna, Carolyn (Vote for 13) Murtaugh, Carole Mulligan, Andrea Kornbluth, George Espinal, Graham Ciraulo, Josue Perez, Michael Ortiz, Carina Villalona, Ruby Palma, Edwin Rosario, only 12 listed?) Group 2 (Brunilda Rodriguez, Angela Rodriguez, Micaela Lugo, Ramon De La Rosa, Elizabeth Batista, Ana B. Santana, Fernando Mendez, Rosario A. Capellan, Donna E. James, Paulette O. Shomo, Carmen De La Rosa, Judith N. Amaro, Barbara M. Frazier) Assembly District Group 1 (Thomas Duane, 75 Andrew J. Paterson, Evelyn ( Vote for 17) Suarez, Jasper R. McGruder, Roberta C. Gelb, John A. Pepen, Lindsey Boylan, Karen S. Raschke, Burt R. Lazarin, Lizbeth Giletto, Phyllis M. Shanley, Paulette R. Osborne, Joanne A. Sinovoi, Sharon L. Clark, Susanne Wasson, Tina P. Stafford, Mindy Rosier) Group 2 (Ronnie M. Eldridge, Emily J. Goodman, Libby Freidman, Yetta G. Kurland, Karen J. Vershbow, Lisa G. Mehos, Nancy Ann Faessler, Ellen J. Landsberger, Lora L. Lindsey, Janice G. Roven, Denisse M. Frand, Jacqueline Goldshin, Leandra Estevez, Scott C. Sartiano, Bruce Rosen, William J. Gerlich, Noah Pfefferblit) New York Alternate Assembly District Group 1 (Julia Guzman, Maria Delegate to71 Matos, Aura Vargas) the Judicial (Vote for 16) Group 2 (Jean Goldsmith, Lois Convention J. Naftulin, Janet McDowell, (D) Rosa A. Greer, Jazmin Del Valle, Matthew Levy, Dorothy Becker, Alfred H. Kurland, Cecelia Hall, Marguerite O. Sutherland, Louis Watts, Dolores M. Pena, Larena Young, Beatrice P. Ashton, Robert Reed) New York Alternate Delegate to the Judicial Convention (D) County/ District Candidates Position Candidate Information Borough Assembly District Group 1 (Yodalis Moran, Dana 72 Hockenbury, Nicholas Lyndon, (Vote for 13) Mayobunex Villalona, Karla Fisk, Jasper Diaz, Lyana Fernandez, Sara Fisher, Marshall Vanderpool, Angela West) Group 2 (Cecila Anglero, Nerys Rodriguez, Josenia A. Dominguez, Maurice A. Edwards, Mariam N. James, Noris R. Casilla, Elka M. Morety, Juana E. Martinez-Reyes, Iris Baltazar, Carmen Nelia Garcia, Wendy Genao, Hector Vasquez Sr., Ava Keefe) Assembly District Group 1 (Aleta A. Lafargue, 75 Paul J. Groncki, Alec R. (Vote for 17) Henson, Carl Schmehl, Kathy Nizzari, Chloe Urban, Charles Bayor, Christopher Lebron, Stuart Beckerman, Deborah J. Gaffaney, Wyatt Frank, Laura B. McGill, Frank Fraioli, Michael Scarna, Lowell D. Kern, Steven D. Nowicki) Group 2 (Pablo Raimondi, Paul Brendan Smith-Leonard, Bjorn A. Thorstad, Chris J. Marchitello, Wayne L. Sunday, George Weisgerber III, Scott Goldshine, Allan M. Cohen, Gus Christensen, Philip P. McCarthy, Martin J. Sigal, Jay A. Marcus, Ichiro Sasaki) Kings County/ Surrogate (D) County-wide Elena Baron Background: currently a Civil Court Judge in Brooklyn's Brooklyn 6th district, was elected to Civil Court without party support Meredith R. Jones Background: attorney in Kings County Surrogate's Court since 2003; Policies: review and protect properties in estates to avoid improper transfers, protect seniors, working people, people of color, and people with disabilities from scams; Only candidate that would be able to serve the full 14-year term Margarita Lopez Torres Background: challenged the NY State BOE in the 2000s for selecting party nominees in a way that made candidates overly reliant on party support, incumbent Surrogate Court Judge, staffed courtroom with full-time bilingual attorney to assist self-represented people, introduced international hearings via video conferencing; Endorsements: Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Representative Nydia Velasquez, Borough President Eric Adams; would be required by NYC law to retire at the age of 70 in 2021, two-years into a 14-year term Kings County/ Judge of the County-wide D. Bernadette Neckles Background: Started in private practice handling civil Brooklyn Civil Court - rights, employment discrimination, landlord tenant County (D) issues, and contract matters, began 11-year tenure in Kings County Court System in 2002, most recently Court Attorney Referee in Kings Country Suprme Court working on residential foreclosure cases, many of which resulted in affordable loan modifications to homeowners; Policies: prioritizes giving pro-se litigants representing themselves a fair trial with a counsel and opposing attorney who are respectful; Endorsements: Brooklyn Young Democrats Kings County/ Judge of the County-wide Brooklyn Civil Court - County (D) County/ District Candidates Position Candidate Information Borough Edward King Background: legal counsel on transactional matters like real property, landlord-tenant issues, backruptcy, trusts, and estates, legal counsel to NY State Assembly on legislative policy and constituency issues, pro bono attorney for incarcerated individuals reentering society Kings County/ Judge of the Municipal Court Alice A. Nicholson Background: police brutality cases at the Center for Brooklyn Civil Court - District 6 Constitutional Rights, due process issues in tax District (D) foreclosure sales cases at the ACLU, currenlty specializes in foreclosure prevention law, saving hundreds of families from displacement in Brooklyn Caroline P. Cohen Background: began career at NYC Housing Authority, specializes in gender and pregnancy discrimination; Policies: court reform for assisting individuals representing themselves, curb discrimination against women, help immigrants feel comfortable showing up at court, increase accessibility for seniors and disabled people, equitable treatment for those she presides over, no matter their gender, economic status, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or citizenship; Endorsements: Brooklyn Assemblymembers Rodneyse Bichotte and Walter Mosley, District Leaders Josue Pierre, Cory Provost, Geoffrey Davis, Lori Maslow, and David Schwartz Chinyelu O. Udoh Background: former criminal defense attorney in NYC, former small claims court Arbitrator, currently a law clerk at the Manhattan Supreme Court Tehilah H. Berman Background: began career as a pension, labor and employment lawyer, later, focused on criminal appeals, currently a law clerk at the Brooklyn Supreme Court; Endorsements: Attorney and legal scholar Alan Dershowitz Kings County/ Delegate to Assembly District Group 1 (Jillian DeDona, Brooklyn Judicial 50 William H. Smith, Alice DeDona, Convention (Vote for 11) James Smith, Eric Radezky, (D) Lina T. Minucci, Courtney DeDona, Richard Mazur, Eileen Cavaliere, Edward Smith, Roseann V. Henry) Group 2 (Victoria Cambranes, Eric Kun, Daeha Schott Ko, Shawn A. Tervenski, Matthew