Ellen R. Greenberg

Greenberg, 59, of East Hills, is running on the Democratic, Green, Working Families and Women’s Equality party lines. She was elected as a Family Court judge in Nassau County in 2006, and in May 2015 was designated an acting Supreme Court justice. From 1997 to 2006, she served as the borough chief of the Bronx office of the New York City Law Department’s Family Court Division, where she supervised approximately 20 lawyers in the prosecution of juvenile delinquency cases, interstate child support enforcement cases and the collection of child support. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish education from SUNY Albany in 1978 and a law degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in 1981. She speaks English and Spanish. She was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1983. Greenberg is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, the Nassau County Women’s Bar Association and the Association of Family Court Judges of the State of New York, where she is on the board of directors. Greenberg is the co-chair of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Collaborative in Nassau County and on the executive committee of the Cardozo School of Law Alumni Association.