Sylvia Cabana moves onto the confusing Nassau judicial chess board

                                                                     

Sylvia Cabana

   

Judicial candidates and judges continue to be moved around the Long Island court system like chess pieces, making it very confusing to outsiders.

Sources say former Democratic Hempstead Town Clerk Sylvia Cabana, a Garden City lawyer recently appointed to Nassau's financial control board, will be cross-endorsed this week for a newly created Nassau Family Court seat.

The new judicial spot comes from state legislation signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul last month that created additional Family Court judges and Supreme Court justices throughout the state.

Nassau Family Court was given one additional judge while the Nassau-Suffolk Supreme Court District is getting one additional justice

The new Supreme Court justice is expected to come from Suffolk this year, with news about Suffolk's cross-endorsement judicial shuffles predicted next week.

In general, Long Island's political parties agree to cross-endorse select judicial candidates in every election, subject to the candidates being deemed qualified by their respective county bar associations.

Cabana has practiced immigration and family law in Garden City for more than 20 years. She was elected town clerk in Republican-controlled Hempstead in 2017 but lost her bid for re-election in 2019.

Hochul appointed Cabana to the Nassau Interim Finance Authority board in March, along with another female appointee, making them the first women on the financial control board since it was created in 2000.

Cabana's expected cross-endorsement  follows Hochul quiet promotion of three district court judges to Family Court in June, followed by the Nassau legislature confirming four interim appointments by Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman to District Court last week.

The Nassau Bar Association this week is expected to begin screening nine candidates for Supreme Court -- Republican Family Court Judge Lisa Cairo and eight Democrats.

Lisa Cairo, the daughter of Nassau GOP Chairman Joseph Cairo, is expected to be cross-endorsed for a Supreme Court seat being vacated by a judge whose term is expiring this year and is too old to run for re-election.


 

 


 

 

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