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Audrey Pheffer
American politician
Audrey I. Pheffer (born August 13, )[1] is an American Democratic Party politician from New York. She is currently serving as QueensCounty Clerk.
Previously, she represented District 23 in the New York State Assembly from to , which comprised Rockaway Beach, Howard Beach and Ozone Park, among other neighborhoods found within the New York Cityborough of Queens.
Early life
Pheffer worked from to at the Rockaway Occupational Training Center and agency of the Queens Association of ARC, where she worked with the developmentally disabled.
Former Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer ... - New York Daily News: Previously, she represented District 23 in the New York State Assembly from to , which comprised Rockaway Beach, Howard Beach and Ozone Park, among other neighborhoods found within the New York City borough of Queens.In , she was a member of the New York Urban area Commission of Human Rights.[citation needed]
Despite her long separation from teaching and having only a tall school diploma, she successfully merged being a working mom and a full-time student at Queens College, City University of Recent York, where she received a B.A.
degree (cum laude) in [citation needed]
She was a Exceptional Assistant to former New York City Council President Andrew Stein and Executive Assistant to Mention Senator Jeremy S. Weinstein.[citation needed]
Pheffer resides in Far Rockaway and has two children, Mitchell and Stacey.
She and her animation partner Glenn Riddell have six grandchildren.[2]
Political career
On April 28, , she elected to the Brand-new York State Assembly, to load the vacancy caused by the resignation of Gerdi E.
Lipschutz.[3] Pheffer was re-elected many times, and remained in the Assembly until , sitting in the th, th, th, th, st, nd, rd, th, th, th, th, th and th Fresh York State Legislatures. She was Chairwoman of the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection from to In the past she has chaired the Assembly's Election Law Committee and the Subcommittee on Outreach and Oversight of Senior Citizen Programs, and served as President of the National Order of Women Legislators from to [citation needed]
In Pheffer launched a run for Queens Borough President before ultimately withdrawing from the race.[citation needed]
In , she resigned from the State Assembly after being appointed to the position of County Clerk of Queens County.
She is ex officio a clerk of the New York Supreme Court and Commissioner of Jurors of Queens. In , her daughter Stacey Pheffer Amato was elected to her mother's old Assembly seat, becoming the first such same-seat mother-daughter combination in the Assembly's history.[4]