Judy A. Griffin

Credit: James Escher

Griffin, 63, of Rockville Centre, is a registered Democrat and is running on the Democratic party line in the general election. She represented the 21st Assembly District from 2019 to 2022, was reelected in 2024 and is seeking her fourth term.
She is a member of the Assembly committees on aging, alcoholism and drug abuse; economic development and job creation; governmental employees; higher education and veterans’ affairs. Griffin worked formerly as director of community outreach and senior adviser to State Sen. Todd Kaminsky. She was sole proprietor of an integrative health and wellness coaching business.
Griffin graduated from SUNY Oneonta with a bachelor’s degree in business economics.

Griffin said she has worked during the past two years “to achieve commonsense utility reforms and lower insurance costs by requiring excess insurance profits to be returned directly to taxpayers.”
She said she secured more than $13 million in state funding for schools, municipalities, police and fire departments and community organizations, which “directly helps reduce local tax burdens.”
Griffin said that she “championed and passed” the Lieutenant Joseph Banish Mental Health Act, to provide mental health counseling for law enforcement officers, and that she secured $75 million in funding for police department equipment and technology.

Irene V. Villacci