This year's cross-endorsed Nassau judges

Nassau's Democratic and Republican parties have agreed to cross-endorse 11 judicial candidates this year.

They include current judges, spouses of current judges and public officials.

Because they are cross-endorsed, there is no doubt they will be elected in November.

Here is the list:

For county court:

Helene Gugerty, of Bayville,  elected to County Court as a Democrat in 2012 without cross-endorsement. She has been serving as an acting Supreme Court justice. Her husband, Justice David Gugerty, a former Democratic Oyster Bay leader and Nassau Elections Board Commissioner, was cross-endorsed and elected to the Supreme Court in 2019.

Teresa Corrigan, of New Hyde Park, was elected to the County Court as a Democrat in 2012 without cross endorsement. A former prosecutor in the Kings County and Nassau district attorney's office, Corrigan was appointed supervising judge of the County Court in 2017.

Teresa Corrigan (from Law.com)

Rhonda Fischer, of Oyster Bay Cove, a Republican elected to District Court in 2008 without cross endorsement. She was cross-endorsed for District Court in 2019. Newsday reports that she has served as an acting county court judge since 2015.

Rhonda Fischer

For Family court:

Eileen Goggin, of Long Beach, is a Democrat who was cross-endorsed for district court in 2016. She served on the Long Beach city council from 2013 until she went onto the bench.

Eileen Goggin (from Wikipedia)

Joy Watson, a Republican, of Hempstead, a former assistant district attorney, was first appointed to the district court in 2013 and then won election to the court that year. She was cross-endorsed in 2019 for the 2nd District seat.

Joy Watson 

Colin O'Donnell, of Bayville, was elected to the 4th District court in 2018 as a Republican without cross-endorsement. He had been appointed to the bench in 2012. Previously he had served as special counsel to the Oyster Bay Town supervisor and as an assistant Nassau district attorney.

Colin O'Donnell (From Committee to Re-elect Judge Colin O'Donnell)

For District Court 1:

Jaclene Agazarian, of  Glen Head, has been the prinicipal law clerk for a Supreme Court Justice in Nassau's Matrimonial Center. She is married to Nassau Democratic Elections Commissioner Jim Scheuerman.

For District Court 2:

Marie McCormack, of Jericho, is a court referee in Nassau Supreme Court. She is married to Nassau Supreme Court Justice James McCormack, who was elected as a Democrat to County Court in 2005 and was cross-endorsed for Supreme Court in 2015.

Geoffrey Prime, of South Floral Park, is the mayor of the village of South Floral Park. A criminal defense attorney, he ran as a Democrat in 2017 for district court but was not cross-endorsed and did not win. He was the chairman of the Nassau Community College Board of Trustees but resigned in 2013 amid infighting over the selection of a college president.

Geoffrey Prime

Joseph Nocella, a Republican from Seaford, is a former federal prosecutor who served as town attorney for Oyster Bay. He currently is the town attorney for Hempstead Town.

Norman A. Sammut, of Wantagh, is Republican and an attorney in private practice in Garden City.