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COURTS
For Town and Village Courts, see individual listings. The information below lists: Name, When Term Ends, and Phone.
CITY COURTS City Court Judges - 10 YEAR TERMS

Matthew Sypniewski, term ends 2011, 382-5077
Guido Loyola, term ends 2012, 382-5077
Mark W. Blanchfield, term ends 2020, 382-5077

COUNTY COURTS - 10 YEAR TERMS

County Court Judge Karen A. Drago, term ends 2014, 388-4215
Family Court Judge Mark L. Powers, term ends 2011, 388-4305
Family Court Judge Christine M. Clark, term ends 2020, 285-8435
Surrogate Court Judge Vincent W. Versaci, term ends 2018, 285-8455

OTHER OFFICERS

District Attorney Robert M. Carney, term ends 2013, 388-4364
Public Defender Mark J. Caruso 386-2266
Family Ct. Hearing Examiner Colleen Quirion 285-8435
Family Ct. Hearing Examiner Kathleen J. Jennings 285-8435
Family Ct. Hearing Examiner James Densmore 285-8435
Director of Probation vacant
Commissioner of Jurors Hope Splittgerber 388-4361
Chief Clerk of Supreme Court vacant

JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT (4th Dist.)
Statewide offices, filled when vacancies occur. Term is 14 years or until 70 years of age. (May be certified for continued service at the end of the year in which they reach 70.) Schenectady is one of the eleven counties in the fourth Judicial District.

Jan H. Plumadore Saranac Lake/Albany, term ends 2012
David B. Krogmann Lake George, term ends 2017
David R. Demarest Canton, term ends 2021
Frank B. Williams, Saratoga Springs, term ends 2021
Thomas D. Nolan, Jr., Ballston Spa, term ends 2013
Vincent J. Reilly, Jr. Schenectady, term ends 2014
Vito C. Caruso, Adm. Judge, Schenectady, term ends 2023
Robert Muller, Elizabethtown, term ends 2012
Stephen A. Ferradino, Malta, term ends 2012
Richard T. Aulisi, Johnstown, term ends 2013
Joseph M. Sise, Fonda, term ends 2012

For further information, call the Clerk of the Supreme Court, Schenectady - 388-4323 or Administrative Office 4th District - 587-3019
THE APPELLATE DIVISION (3rd Dept.)

Anthony V. Cardona Presiding Justice, Albany, term ends 2011
Robert S. Rose, Binghamton, term ends 2013
John A. Lahtinen, Plattsburgh, term ends 2011
Karen Kaye Peters, Ulster, term ends 2020
William McCarthy, Albany, term ends 2018
Edward O. Spain, Rensselaer, term ends 2011
Elizabeth Garry, Chemung, term ends 2020
John Egan, Albany, term ends 2019
E. Michael Kavanaugh, Ulster, term ends 2012
Bernard J. Malone, Jr., Albany, term ends 2012
Thomas E. Mercure, Washington, term ends 2013
Leslie E. Stein, Albany, term ends 2016

Court Clerk Appellate Division 471-4777. For further information about courts, call the New York State Office of Court Administration, Albany, phone 474-1038.
COURT OF APPEALS Statewide offices, appointed by the Governor from persons found well qualified by a judicial nominating commission. May be certified for continued service on the Supreme Court.

Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, term ends 2015 Associate Judges:
Susan Phillips Read (Albany), term ends 2017
Eugene F. Pigott, Jr. (Buffalo), term ends 2016
Victoria A. Graffeo (Albany), term ends 2014
Theodore T. Jones, Jr. (White Plains), term ends 2015
Robert S. Smith (NYC), term ends 2014
Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick (NYC), term ends 2012

Office of the Clerk, Court of Appeals, 455-7700

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