Candidate · State Senate, District 36
Jamaal T. Bailey
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 36 (first elected 2016)
- Occupation
- State Senator
- Lives in
- Baychester (Bronx)
Background
- Graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, SUNY Albany (bachelor's degree) and CUNY School of Law. source: nysenate.gov
- Served as Community Relations Director for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and as District Leader of the 83rd Assembly District for six years. source: nysenate.gov
- Elected to the State Senate on November 8, 2016. source: nysenate.gov
- Chairs the Senate Insurance Committee. source: nysenate.gov
- Grew up in Wakefield in the Bronx and lives in Baychester. source: nysenate.gov
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