Sentences with phrase «first woman county»

Curran, Long Island's first woman county executive, won in November on a platform of ethics reform.

At some point, a photo of Laura Curran, Nassau's latest and first woman county executive, will go up on that wall.

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An evangelical megachurch pastor has lost his job and is being investigated by the Lake County, Ind., Sheriff's Department after admitting that he had an «improper relationship» with a young woman, a spokesman for First Baptist Church of Hammond said.

A man secure in his own profession as vice president of his family's bank, a man born to the first female pilot in Monroe County, Tennessee, a man unthreatened by a woman with a life all her own.

I think props must first be given to County Life's Gentlemanly Commandments list because all too often, women's magazines love spouting off their own do's and don't lists for ladeeees and it's about time the mens had their own dumb list to follow.

They opened the first shelter for homeless women and children in McHenry County and continue helping women and children today through a transitional shelter program, outreach and prevention, a subsidized apartment program, affordable housing and rapid rehousing.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Joanie Mahoney, the Republican Onondaga County executive and first woman to hold that post, is the latest member of her party to announce support for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo, YNN's Bill Carey reports.

In 2007, GOP leaders endorsed Dale Sweetland for county executive, and she successfully forced a primary, going on to win the general election and become the first woman to hold her post.

«Kathleen Rice challenged the status quo to become Nassau County's first woman district attorney and she's proven that she has the toughness to do that job well.

Rep. Kathleen Rice, the first woman to be elected Nassau district attorney, is backing Legislator Laura Curran, who will look to break the glass ceiling as Nassau's first female county executive.

At AKPD Message and Media, Del Cecato helped devise winning media and communications strategies for clients such as President Barack Obama, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (the first Democrat to be re-elected NYC Mayor in 32 years), Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, former Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx (who later served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation), Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Columbus Mayor Andy Ginther, and Nassau County Executive Laura Curran (the first woman to hold that post in Nassau County).

Republican Jack Martins on Wednesday afternoon conceded the Nassau County executive race to Democrat Laura Curran, cementing that she'll be the first woman to hold the office.

It's also an historic election for the Board, which will have a majority of women for the first time ever — nine out of 17 — and will become the only county legislature in New York State in which women currently comprise a majority.

Westchester voters have written another chapter in the history of the Women's Rights Movement, electing a legislature with a majority of women for the first time in the county's hisWomen's Rights Movement, electing a legislature with a majority of women for the first time in the county's hiswomen for the first time in the county's history.

Nassau County elected its first female county executive, a Baldwin woman was selected to NASA's newest class of astronauts and three female students from the Half Hollows Hills School District together won $ 100,000 in the Siemens CompetCounty elected its first female county executive, a Baldwin woman was selected to NASA's newest class of astronauts and three female students from the Half Hollows Hills School District together won $ 100,000 in the Siemens Competcounty executive, a Baldwin woman was selected to NASA's newest class of astronauts and three female students from the Half Hollows Hills School District together won $ 100,000 in the Siemens Competition.

In December, 2015, Ms. Curtin Gable was named Homicide Bureau Chief, the first woman in Erie County to hold that position.

In order to change that the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women is partnering with several organizations across New York on a new program entitled, First Amendment - First Vote.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Wednesday is expected to become the first African - American and woman chosen to lead the county Democratic Party, a sign of a changing political landscape and her ability to weather a County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Wednesday is expected to become the first African - American and woman chosen to lead the county Democratic Party, a sign of a changing political landscape and her ability to weather a county Democratic Party, a sign of a changing political landscape and her ability to weather a storm.

Ulster County's own Sojourner Truth — former slave, abolitionist, preacher and advocate of women's rights — was the first black woman to go to court against a white man and win.

In January 2008, she became the first woman to hold the post of Onondaga County executive after losing the 2005 race for mayor of Syracuse.

If elected, she'd be the first woman from Suffolk County elected to the Senate.

A reader in the Hudson Valley tourism business forwarded an email from a colleague welcoming former First Lady Libby Pataki to her new job as Putnam County tourism director — an appointment that generated a brief moment of controversy, or, at the very least, consternation, on the part of the woman she replaced.

Ms. Hart, who has been with the FBI for 21 years, will be the first woman at the helm of the Suffolk County Police Department.

He says the New York State Board of Elections alone has registered more than 500 high school students across the county, and there are also other organizations like the League of Women Voters, as well as candidate groups, that are working to get first time voters registered.

Channel 2 News is in New Rochelle following up on the story first reported on Talk of the Sound yesterday that Paula Izurieta, a woman arrested in Rockland County on Monday for burglarizing the home of a friend killed in a motorcycle accident on Friday is the same woman who reported Mount Vernon fireman James Drago missing in the water off Larchmont after Drago took his boat out of the New Rochelle Marina on June 26th.

She made history as the first woman to ever be elected to a judgeship in Warren County.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino has announced that the Hon. Lois Taplin Bronz, the first woman and first African - American to chair Westchester County's Board of Legislators and a life - long champion for early childhood education, will be the top honoree at the 31st annual Westchester Senior Citizens Hall of Fame on Dec. 6.

Jennifer Saul was the first woman to be head of NY County.

Aiden O'Connor Jr., 29, of Durham, a first - term Greene County legislator, will appear on the Democratic, Working Families and Women's Equality party lines.

Democrat Laura Curran is mapping out her transition following her victory in the Nassau County executive's race, making her the first woman to hold that job.

Caroline Wojtaszek, a former sex crime prosecutor, was endorsed for Niagara County district attorney by the county Democratic Committee in a major step toward what may turn out to be an unopposed candidacy to become the county's first womCounty district attorney by the county Democratic Committee in a major step toward what may turn out to be an unopposed candidacy to become the county's first womcounty Democratic Committee in a major step toward what may turn out to be an unopposed candidacy to become the county's first womcounty's first woman DA.

Many have pushed for Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, a Westchester County legislator who has led Senate Democrats since 2012 and is the first woman or person of color to lead a legislative conference, to be included at the negotiating table during budget and other high - level talks.

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We talked to first - term school board members, county legislators, women who are the first of their gender to hold roles in the Democratic conference or to represent their senate district, and we talked to women who've served at the national level.

The first woman Democratic county executive in the United States, Pattison was reelected for the next two terms, retiring in 1991.

Maria Athens: As the first women with Greek origins positioned as Nassau County's Acting District Attorney, what is your advice to the new generation of Greek - Americans?

«The WNY Women's Foundation supports County Executive Poloncarz» Executive Order as a first step to elimination of the wage disparity between women and men with the goal of ensuring critical income to families living in poverty in WNY,» said Sheri Scavone, Executive Director of the WNY Women's FoundaWomen's Foundation supports County Executive Poloncarz» Executive Order as a first step to elimination of the wage disparity between women and men with the goal of ensuring critical income to families living in poverty in WNY,» said Sheri Scavone, Executive Director of the WNY Women's Foundawomen and men with the goal of ensuring critical income to families living in poverty in WNY,» said Sheri Scavone, Executive Director of the WNY Women's FoundaWomen's Foundation.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney will be the first woman to serve a term as chair of the New York State Thruway Authority if her nomination is approved by the Senate.

Michael D. Rodriguez, a Latino progressive from Commissioner Jesus «Chuy» Garcia's neighborhood and committeeman of the 22nd ward, was elected as executive vice chair of the Cook County Democratic Party; a post previously held by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who just rose as the first African - American and woman elected to lead the Democratic party in the cCounty Democratic Party; a post previously held by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who just rose as the first African - American and woman elected to lead the Democratic party in the cCounty Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who just rose as the first African - American and woman elected to lead the Democratic party in the countycounty.

Candace K. Vogel is the first woman to be named Chief of the Erie County District Attorney's Office Special Investigations and Prosecutions Bureau.

She was the first African American woman to serve as County Legislator.

It wasn't Frazier versus Ali, but Assembly primary candidates Kevin Cahill and Susan Zimet did some impressive bobbing and weaving at their first meet - the - candidate face - off before the Ulster County Democratic Women in Kingston this Monday night.

WHEREAS, Santa Clara County was at one point known as the Feminist Capital of the World, with Janet Gray Hayes serving as the first woman elected Mayor of a major US city as part of a San Jose City Council with seven women, (including a female vice-mayor) at the same time as the San Jose Chamber of Commerce was led by a woman; as of August, only two women serve on the eleven member San Jose City Council and only one woman serves on the five member County Board of Supervisors; and

When she won the marginal seat of Falmouth and Camborne in 1997, famously defeating the Conservative incumbent, Sebastian Coe, she became the first Labour MP in Cornwall since 1970 and the first woman MP in the county since 1920.

And I'm proud that my administration this year opened Rockland County's first warming center for our most hard - to - reach population, single men and women who lack steady housing.

The Capital District GOP Women's Council PAC held its first fundraiser last week as it positions itself as a network to support conservative female candidates not just in Albany County but in 11 counties in and around the Capital Region.

In all, the virus that infected the woman on 2 August spread to 10 others in River Gee, marking the county's first 11 cases.

StarAfrica — Two women - led farmers» organizations, the Bunadin Women's Organization and the Dordealah Farmers Organization in Nimba County in north - central Liberia, is this weekend scheduled to launch the first harvest of improved rice varieties being developed with the support of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Agriculwomen - led farmers» organizations, the Bunadin Women's Organization and the Dordealah Farmers Organization in Nimba County in north - central Liberia, is this weekend scheduled to launch the first harvest of improved rice varieties being developed with the support of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the Government of Liberia through the Ministry of AgriculWomen's Organization and the Dordealah Farmers Organization in Nimba County in north - central Liberia, is this weekend scheduled to launch the first harvest of improved rice varieties being developed with the support of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Agriculture.

Six pregnant women in Harris County, in Texas, have tested positive for Zika, the first cases of the mosquito - borne disease to be reported in the area in 2017.