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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Mary Donohue |
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Albany, New York , United States |
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March 22, 1947
(77 years)
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| Contributor | JR725 |
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| Info | Elected to serve as Lt. Governor of the State of New York on November 3, 1998 and re-elected on November 5, 2002, Mary Donohue has been an integral part of Governor Pataki's team. Her experience as a teacher, District Attorney and State Supreme Court Justice has proven invaluable to the Governor in implementing policies that have given all New Yorkers more hope, more freedom and a better quality of life, including cutting taxes, creating jobs, reducing crime, reforming government, protecting the environment and creating better opportunities for individuals on welfare.
In 1996, Lt. Governor Donohue was elected to the State Supreme Court for the seven-county Third Judicial District by an impressive 20,000 vote margin in a six-way race. Prior to her service as the first female State Supreme Court Justice from Rensselaer County, the Lt. Governor was elected as Rensselaer County's first female District Attorney in 1992. She was reelected in 1995 with an unprecedented 70 percent of the vote.
During her tenure as District Attorney, she compiled an impressive crime-fighting record by achieving convictions in over 90% of the cases she handled. As District Attorney, Donohue attained wide-ranging respect for her expertise in many criminal justice areas, including domestic violence, child abuse, the death penalty and juvenile justice. She personally tried cases ranging from murder and attempted murder to sexual abuse, all of which resulted in convictions. She oversaw nearly 5,000 criminal prosecutions each year.
Prior to her service as Judge and District Attorney, the Lt. Governor was a teacher and an attorney. A graduate of the College of New Rochelle, Donohue taught elementary and junior high school in Rensselaer and Albany County school districts. During her 10-year teaching career she earned a Master's of Science in Education from Russell Sage College.
In 1980, the Lt. Governor entered law school at Albany Law School of Union University, where she earned a Juris Doctor degree in 1983. During law school, she served as a law clerk and intern in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Albany and worked on the staff of Senator Joseph Bruno.
After graduating from law school, Lt. Governor Donohue was admitted to the New York State bar and worked as an associate attorney with O'Connell & Aronowitz, P.C. in Albany until 1988. From 1988 to 1992, she ran her own law practice in Troy. From 1990 to1992, the Lt. Governor also served as Assistant Rensselaer County Attorney, representing the county in civil litigation and in Family Court, thereby gaining invaluable experience in areas including juvenile justice and other issues affecting children.
In January 1999, Governor Pataki appointed Donohue to chair the Governor's Task Force on School Violence. For more than one year, the Lt. Governor held public hearings, forums and one-on-one meetings with students, experts and community representatives to gather suggestions on school violence issue. In July 2000, Governor Pataki signed into law the Safe Schools Against Violence in Education Act, a comprehensive series of Task Force recommendations aimed at reducing violence in schools. All of the provisions of the Act were implemented at the start of the 2001-02 school year.
In January 2000, the Lt. Governor was appointed by the Governor to chair the Task Force on Quality Communities. She spent the year studying community growth throughout the Empire State and has worked to develop measures to assist those communities in implementing effective economic, land development, preservation and rehabilitation strategies. She now chairs the Quality Communities Working Group, comprised of 25 state agencies joining forces to implement the Task Force's 41 recommendations.
Since then she also served as chair of the Governor's Task Force on Small Business, meeting with small business owners around the state to discuss what can be done to make it easier to do business in New York. During the first several months of 2003, the Lt. Governor has spent a great deal of time promoting criminal justice reforms, including anti-terrorism, DWI, drug and DNA legislation.
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