Candidate · State Senate, District 42
James G. Skoufis
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 42 (in the Senate since 2019)
- Occupation
- State Senator
- Lives in
- Cornwall
Background
- Graduate of Monroe-Woodbury High School; bachelor's degree from The George Washington University and master's degree from Columbia University. source: nysenate.gov
- Served on the Woodbury Town Council. source: chroniclenewspaper.com
- Served six years in the State Assembly before being elected to the State Senate in 2018. source: nysenate.gov
- Chairs the Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee. source: nysenate.gov
- Family moved from Queens to the Town of Woodbury in 1995; lives in Cornwall. source: nysenate.gov
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