Darlene Jorif Mangan

BACKGROUND

• Jorif-Mangane, 56, of Mastic, is running on the Democratic party line in the general election.
• Since August, she has been the court attorney referee in Suffolk County Family Court, and has been support magistrate there since 2015.
• Jorif-Mangane was litigation supervisor for the Center for Family Representation from 2008 to 2015, supervising attorney for the Neighborhood Defender Service from 2004 to 2008 and director of operations at the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice from 2002 to 2004.
• She was assistant attorney in charge at the Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Division from 1998 to 2001, and attorney for children there from 1993 to 1996.
• Jorif-Mangane was program planner for the Vera Institute of Justice from 1997 to1998, and Juvenile Justice Project director for the Correctional Association of New York from 1996 to 1997.
• She received her undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University in 1990 and earned a law degree from New York University in 1993. Jorif-Mangane was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1994.