Jerald S. Carter

Carter, 65, of Mineola, is running on the Republican, Conservative, Independence and Tax Revolt party lines. Carter has been a Nassau County Court judge and an acting Supreme Court justice since 1998. He was a Town of Hempstead attorney in 1997 and a Nassau County District Court judge in 1996. From 1989 to 1996, Carter was a Hempstead Village Court judge. From 1983 to 1990, he was a negotiating attorney for the Hempstead school board, and from 1977 to 1980 he was a Nassau County assistant district attorney. Carter received his bachelor�s degree from Fisk University and his law degree from Howard University. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1978. He is a member of the Nassau County and the Amistad Long Island Black bar associations.