Voters Guide: Town Justice, Town of Shelter Island: Mary-Faith Westervelt

MARY-FAITH WESTERVELT

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BACKGROUND:

• Westervelt, 69, of Shelter Island, is running on the Democratic and Republican party lines in the general election.
• She has been Town Justice since 2011 and is running unopposed for reelection as Town Justice.
• Westervelt is a partner in the Shelter Island law firm of Westervelt & Rea, LLP, she concentrates on elder law, real estate, contracts, trusts and estates.
• She graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1975. In 1988, she started a four-year night school program at Touro College’s Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, earning her law degree in 1992, while working full-time as a deputy division manager of procurement and then as manager at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
• Westervelt began working at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1976 and retired in 2014.
• Westervelt was admitted to the New York State bar in 1993.