Joy M. Watson

JOY M. WATSON

REPUBLICAN

BACKGROUND:

• Watson, 63, of Hempstead, is running on the Democratic, Republican and Conservative party lines in the general election.
• She has been a Nassau County Family Court judge since June 2022, and served as a District Court judge from 2013 until her Family Court appointment.
• Watson was deputy comptroller for Nassau County from May 2010-2013 and from 2012-2013, she was of counsel to Sepe & O’Mahony in Rockville Centre.
• She was principal law clerk for Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Karen Murphy from 2006 to 2010, and an assistant district attorney for Nassau County from 1986 to 2005.
• Watson received her bachelor’s degree from the University at Albany in 1982, and her law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1985.
• She was admitted to the New York State Bar and the federal courts, Eastern and Southern districts in 1987. She was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 2008.