Marian R. Tinari

Marian R. Tinari

Conservative

BACKGROUND: Tinari, 64, of Huntington, is running on the Democratic, Conservative and Independence party lines in the general election. She was appointed as a Suffolk County District Court judge in March 2015, and in 2016 elected to that position for a six-year term. From 2011 to 2015, Tinari was an attorney with the Suffolk County District Administrative Judge’s Office and from 2010 to 2011, an attorney with the Suffolk County Supreme Court Law Department. From 2002 to 2009, she was a principal law clerk to the Suffolk County Surrogate and from 1987 to 2002, she was law clerk to Judge Michael F. Mullen. She was an assistant district attorney in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office from 1984 to 1987, and from 1981 to 1984, she was an investment banker at Chase Manhattan Bank in Manhattan. She received her undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary in 1976 and her law degree from Capital University in 1981, where she was senior notes editor of the Law Review. She received a certificate from the American Bankers Association’s National Trust School at Northwestern University in 1982. She was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1982. Tinari is co-chair of the Suffolk County Court’s Children’s Center advisory board, co-chair of the Suffolk County Women in the Courts Mental Health subcommittee, and a member of the Suffolk County Bar Association’s Bench Bar committee. She is past president of the Suffolk County Brehon Law Society and past co-chair of the Suffolk County Bar Association’s Surrogate Court Committee. She served as chair of the Suffolk County District Administrative Judge’s task force on the Supreme Court. Tinari also served on the New York State Court System’s Foreclosure Program and on the Board of Managers of the Suffolk County Bar Association Pro Bono Foundation. She is a member of the Suffolk County Bar Association’s Military and Veterans Affairs Committee, and the Suffolk County Criminal Bar. Tinari is the 2014 recipient of the Rosemary Nelson award from the Suffolk County Brehon Law Society.