Joseph C. Pastoressa

Credit: Courtesy of Joesph C. Pastoressa

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.