Candidate · State Senate, District 37
Shelley B. Mayer
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 37 (since 2018)
- Occupation
- State Senator
- Lives in
- Yonkers
Background
- B.A., UCLA (1975); J.D., SUNY Buffalo School of Law (1979). source: nysenate.gov
- Assistant Attorney General in the office of Attorney General Bob Abrams (1982-1994), including the Civil Rights Bureau and the Westchester Regional Office. source: nysenate.gov
- Worked as Vice President of Government and Community Affairs at Continuum Health Partners and as Chief Counsel to the State Senate Democrats. source: nysenate.gov
- Served six years in the State Assembly representing Yonkers. source: nysenate.gov
- Elected to the State Senate in an April 2018 special election and re-elected in 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024; chairs the Education Committee (since 2019). source: nysenate.gov
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