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VOTERS GUIDE Long Island Voters Guide for Nov. 4, 2025

Joseph C. Pastoressa

Joseph C. Pastoressa is running for New York State Supreme Court Justice

Joseph C. Pastoressa

BACKGROUND

  • Pastoressa, 67, of St. James, is a registered Conservative and is running on the Democratic, Republican and Conservative party lines in the general election.
  • He has been a justice on the Supreme Court since 2012, a position to which he was elected in 2011.
  • Pastoressa was appointed a New York Court of Claims judge assigned to sit on the Supreme Court from 2004 to 2011.
  • Prior to that, he worked in private practice and was a principal law clerk for several judges, including Appellate Division, Second Department Justice Gloria Goldstein.
  • Pastoressa earned his law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1983 and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1984.

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