Many Happy Returns

Election Day, Tuesday, November 5 brought many happy returns for Touro Law grads.

Three incumbent New York State legislators were re-elected: Keith Brown ’94, Vice Chair of the Institute on Land Use and Sustainable Development Law, and a founding partner of the Melville real estate and development law firm Brown & Altman, won a third term in the Assembly (AD12-Northport). John Mikulin ‘17, the former Deputy Hempstead Town Attorney, won a fourth full term in the Assembly (AD17-Levittown). Joseph Addabbo Jr. ’92 will return to the Senate for a 9th term representing SD15 (Glendale, Queens), carrying on the public service tradition of his father, Joseph P. Addabbo, Sr., who served 13 terms in the House of Representatives from 1960 to 1986.

Judicial races for State Supreme Court (Nassau-Suffolk) were all uncontested, thanks to a multi-party cross-endorsement deal. The candidates winning unopposed:

State Supreme Court 10th Judicial District

Al Graf ‘02, of Bayport, Suffolk County Family Court judge, former Suffolk County District Court judge and member of the New York State Assembly.

Terence Murphy ‘93, of Seaford, Acting Supreme Court justice, former Nassau County District Court judge.
Nassau Family Court

Chris Coschignano, ‘93, of East Norwich, Nassau County District Court judge, former Oyster Bay Town councilman and a partner in the Uniondale firm Sahn Ward Coschignano PLLC.

Nassau County Court

Jeffrey Goodstein ‘97, of Rockville Centre, Court of Claims judge/Acting Nassau County Supreme Court justice since 2012, whose assignments have included supervising judge of Nassau County’s Matrimonial Center, supervising Supreme Court judge, Nassau County, and supervising judge for town and village courts in Nassau County.

In Rockland County, Keith Braunfotel ’94, New York City criminal defense attorney and former Brooklyn ADA, defeated the incumbent and will be the new Clarkstown Town Justice.

Not all the returns were happy, though. William Murphy ‘11, of Farmingdale, a St. John’s University Division of Legal Studies faculty member lost his bid to unseat a first-term incumbent in the New York Assembly (AD15 - north central Suffolk). Mary-Ann Elizabeth Maloney ’96, an administrative law judge, family court attorney, and administrative court manager, was unsuccessful in her try for Queens County Civil Court.