Next, Chairman Lafayette introduced Hal Greenwald, Esq., Arlene Katz, Esq. and Michelle Sauer, Esq. to address the committee. Greenwald, Katz and Sauer made brief remarks and withdrew their names from nominations for Family Court. Janet C. Jordan, a Support Magistrate of the Westchester County Family Court in Yonkers, was nominated to run for a full ten-year term on the Family Court. Ms. Jordan was appointed Support Magistrate to the Yonkers City Court by Ninth Judicial District Administrative Judge Jonathan Lippman to hear and determine paternity adn support petitions; conduct fact-finding hearings, evaluate testimony and evidence, research and analyze legal issues, decide motions, issue subpoenas, recommend arrest warrants and periods of incarceration, assign counsel and Law Guardians, issue binding decisions and orders. Magistrate Jordan is currently designated to the Yonkers City Court Integrated Domestic Violence COurt. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Utica College of Syracuse University and a Juris Doctorate degree from CUNY School of Law at Queens College in 1989. Ms. Jordan resides in New Rochelle, New York. Judge James Wm. Hubert was elected Greenburgh Town Judge in 2004. Prior to his election, Hubert served as Assistant District Attorney and Bureau Chief in the Queens County District Attorney’s Office. He is a Civil Practice Litigator specializing in civil rights, libel, employment discrimination, torts, contract disputes, real estate, matrimonial, and labor relations, trials and appeals in state and federal courts. Judge Hubert is a graduate of Mount Vernon High School, Mount Vernon, NY. He recieved his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and a Juris Doctorate degree from Boston College Law School in 1982. Judge Hubert resides in Ardsley, New York. The district leaders of the Democratic Party will collect signatures for the candidates from June 12th until mid-July. It looks like it’s going to be a long hot summer, but district leaders may be in luck. They may find their special petition signers at home because of high gas prices.
Democrats Back Zambelli & Hubert for County Court;
Jordan for Family.
Jonathan Bandler
The Journal News
The Westchester County Democratic Committee held its Judicial Nominating Convention las Wednesday, May 16, 2007, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in White Plains. The members of the committee, made up of city, town and village chairs and officers, endorsed Westchester County Court Judge Barbara Zambelli for reelection, Greenburgh Town Judge James Wm. Hubert for a second County Court Vacancy and New Rochelle resident Janet C. Jordan, Esq. for Family Court.
Judge Barbara Zambelli, a judge in the Westchester County Court for the past nine years, is seeking reelection for another 10-year term. Judge Zambelli previously served as a Mount Vernon City Court judge for ten years, and is currently serving as an Acting Supreme Court Justice in the Ninth Judicial District.
Before accepting other nominations for the seat on the County Court vacated by Judge Sam Walker, who was elected to the New York State Supreme Court, County Chairman Reginald Lafayette called on Susan Capeci, Esq. of Mount Vernon; Ron Stokes, Esq. of Yorktown; Barry Warhit, Esq. of Scarsdale and Judge John Colangelo, City Judge of New Rochelle, to make remarks. All four candidates withdrew their names from consideration for County Court and agreed to support the candidates of the party. Greenburgh Democratic chair Suzanne Berger nominated Town Judge James Wm. Hubert to run for the other seat on the County Court. Thomasina Laidley-Brown, chair of the Ossining Democratic Committee, seconded the nomination. Mr. Lafayette called for the other nominations. Hearing none, Judge Hubert was accepted unanimously by the Executive Committee members to join Judge Zambelli as a candidate for the County Court on the Democratic ballot. Judge Hubert thanked his fellow competitors for their support and for their show of unity in stepping aside to prevent a primary among individuals who have gotten to know each other over the course of the past few months as they campaigned all over Westchester.