Candidate · State Senate, District 35
Andrea Stewart-Cousins
What this job does: Your district's vote in the New York State Senate (63 members). Senators write and vote on state laws and the state budget, and approve the governor's picks for top jobs and for judges on the state's highest court. A term is two years.
- Holds this seat now
- Yes
- Office
- State Senator, District 35 (first elected 2006); Senate Majority Leader and President Pro Tempore
- Occupation
- State Senator; Senate Majority Leader
- Lives in
- Yonkers
Background
- Earned a B.S. and a Master of Public Administration from Pace University and teaching credentials from Lehman College. source: nysenate.gov
- Served as Director of Community Affairs for the City of Yonkers, the first African American to hold that post. source: nysenate.gov
- Served as a Westchester County Legislator, including as Majority Whip and Vice-Chair. source: nysenate.gov
- Elected to the State Senate in 2006; serves as Majority Leader and President Pro Tempore, the first woman and first African American woman in the Majority Leader role. source: nysenate.gov
- Chairs the Senate Rules Committee. source: nysenate.gov
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