Deborah Poulos, Justice of the Supreme Court, 10th District

Deborah Poulos

Conservative

BACKGROUND: Poulos, 64, of Dix Hills, is running on the Democratic, Conservative and Independence party lines in the general election. She has been acting judge in the Matrimonial Part of the Suffolk County Supreme Court since 2017. From 2014 to 2016, she was a Suffolk County Family Court judge, where she handled numerous custody and neglect matters. From 1990 to 2013, Poulos was a family and matrimonial law trial attorney in private practice at Lefkowitz & Poulos in Hauppauge. Poulos graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from Adelphi University in 1981. She received a law degree from Touro College's Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in 1988. Poulos was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1989 and to the U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. District Court, Eastern District; and the U.S. Court of Military Appeals in 1993. Poulos is a member of the New York State Bar Association (Family and Matrimonial Law section), Suffolk County Bar Association and the Suffolk County Women’s Bar Association. Poulos is on the board of directors of the Suffolk Academy of Law. She previously was on the board of the New York State Family Court Judges Association.