Kate Murray

Credit: Kathy M Helgeson

Murray, 64, of Levittown, is a registered Republican and is running on the Republican and Conservative party lines in the general election. She is seeking a sixth term.
She was elected a state assemblywoman in 1998 and was first elected Hempstead town clerk in 2001. Murray was elected Hempstead town supervisor in 2003 and served until 2016. She was again elected town clerk in 2019.
Murray received an undergraduate degree in English literature from Boston College and a law degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.

Murray said that if reelected she wants to continue to reduce costs in the clerk’s office while expanding constituent services, including continuing to bring the office’s passport services into more locations in the community.
She said she wants to increase awareness of and expand the town’s child identification program, which provides parents with identifying information about their child, including a photo, fingerprints and lock of hair.
Murray said she also wants to expand the town’s senior ID program, which provides cards containing information about the person’s medication and health data that can be used by first responders.

Joylette E. Williams