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Vote on Tuesday, November 5, 2013 for the following candidates:

 

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Justices of the Supreme Court (Vote for 5)

On September 17, 2013 the Democratic Party held a Judicial Nominating Convention.   The Democratic Party in the Ninth Judicial District chose five candidates to run for Supreme Court Justice.  The five nominees are Judge Janet Malone, Judge John Colonel, Judge Maria Vazquez-Doles, Victor Grossman and Alexander Eisemann.

 

Honorable Janet C. Malone – Janet was found Well Qualified by the Westchester Women’s Bar Association.  She is a Family Court Judge and acting Supreme Court Judge.  She has also been rated highly qualified by the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Committee.  Judge Malone handles cases involving vulnerable children and families with compassion and respect.  Prior to become a judge, she was a Westchester Family Court Support Magistrate and assured that our children received the financial support, health insurance and child care that they needed. As an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan she was entrusted with securing justice for victims of domestic violence, sex crimes and homicides.

 

John P. Colangelo – John was found Well Qualified by the Westchester Women’s Bar Association. John is a Westchester County Court Judge and acting Supreme Court Justice.  He also served as an acting Family Court Judge and was a Judge in the New Rochelle City Court.  Prior to that John was in private practice of law including extensive litigation experience. John is an Adjunct Professor, Department of Criminal Justice at Iona College.  John is well versed in the law and has earned a reputation listening to both sides in a case, being fair and a hard worker.

 

Maria S. Vazquez-Doles – Maria was found Qualified by the Westchester Women’s Bar Association.  Maria serves as the Town Justice for Monroe and presides over approximately 400 cases per month.  She is also an attorney for practices in family, matrimonial and commercial law.  She is also a former court attorney in Manhattan Supreme Court where she researched and drafted decisions for Supreme Court Justices. She was an adjunct professor at Monroe College in New Rochelle.  Maria also worked for Owens Corning and Fiberboard where she managed and supervised the N.Y. legal team of attorneys and paralegals for the company in defense of products liability.

 

Victor G. Grossman – Victor was found Well Qualified by the Westchester Women’s Bar Association.  He is a native of Scarsdale who graduated from Scarsdale H.S.  For over thirty years in private practice he has represented mothers, fathers and children, non-profits, law enforcement officers and first responders and victims of domestic violence.  Victor has also worked for the Putnam County Land Trust in the preservation of open space and acquisition of sensitive parcels of land.  He has also worked as an Arbitrator in the White Plains City Court hearing small claim matters.  Victor is currently a member of the Grievance Committee of the Ninth Judicial District.  Victor also serves as a special prosecutor who is appointed by the administrative judge in matters where the District Attorney is disqualified.  He has earned a reputation for fairness and hard work, as well as being well versed in the law.

 

Alexander Eisemann – Alexander was found Well Qualified by the Westchester Women’s Bar Association and Highly Qualified by the N.Y.S. Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission.  He has over thirty years experience in civil and criminal litigation.  He ser

 

ved seventeen years as a federal mediator to help resolve civil cases in White Plains and N.Y.C. 

Alex provided free legal services to the homeless and was appointed to represent indigent defendants in federal criminal cases.  He served as a former Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn.

 

County Court Judge (Vote for One)

David F. Everett – David was found Well Qualified by the Westchester Women’s Bar Association.  He has over thirty years experience as a lawyer with extensive criminal trial court experience.  David’s legal career includes courtroom experience as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn and Queens, civil trial attorney, and defense council.  David served as Chief of Criminal Court Bureau, Homicide Trials Bureau in the Queens County District Attorney’s office.  David is a retired Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve with combat zone deployment in Afghanistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.  He was the Senior Military Adviser to the Chief of Police of Kabul in 2009 and was the Principal Military Adviser to Iraq’s Ministry of Interior’s Director of Internal Affairs. As well as the Executive Officer, Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during Desert Storm.  

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