Eileen A. Powers, Town Justice, Town of Southold

EILEEN A. POWERS

Republican

BACKGROUND:

• Powers, 54, of Southold, is running on the Republican and Conservative party lines in the general election.
• Powers serves as a town justice for the Town of Southold since 2018.
• She has operated a private law practice in Riverhead since 2002 and has been the Belle Terre Village attorney since July 2006.
• Powers served as an assistant town attorney and the deputy town attorney for Southampton Town before being named the Southampton Town attorney, where she served from 2002 to 2005.
• Powers also was a prosecutor with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, serving as the deputy bureau chief for the Major Crimes Bureau from June 1999 to December 2001 and as an assistant district attorney from August 1992 to October 1996.
• Powers received her law degree from St. John’s University School of Law in 1992.