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Sandy Galef

Former Member of New York State Assembly

Field	Value
name	Sandy Galef
image	Sandy Galef.jpg
caption	Galef in 2013
alt	Sandy Galef, a white woman with white hair and wearing a red jacket, stands in front of a microphone.
birth_date
birth_place	La Crosse, Wisconsin, U.S.
party	Democrat
spouse	Steven Galef (married 1963-1998)
children	2
alma_mater	Purdue University (B.A.)
University of Virginia (M.A.)
state_assembly	New York
district	95th
predecessor	Incumbent
term_start	January 1, 2013
term_end	December 31, 2022
successor	Dana Levenberg
state_assembly2	New York
district2	90th
predecessor2	George Pataki
term_start2	January 1, 1993
term_end2	December 31, 2012
successor2	Redistricted
office3	Minority Leader of the Westchester County Board of Legislators
term_start3	January 1, 1984
term_end3	December 31, 1992
office4	Westchester County Legislator
from the 9th District
term_start4	January 1, 1983
term_end4	December 31, 1992
office5	Westchester County Legislator
from the 2nd District
term_start5	January 1, 1980
term_end5	December 31, 1982
signature	Sandra R. Galef Signature.png
birth_name	Sandra Risk

University of Virginia (M.A.) from the 9th District from the 2nd District

Sandra Galef (née Risk; born May 7, 1940) is an American politician who served as a member of the New York State Assembly for 30 years.

Early life and career

Galef was born Sandra Risk in LaCrosse, Wisconsin on May 7, 1940. In 1944, she moved with her family to Westchester County in New York. She received a B.A. from Purdue University and an M.A. in education from the University of Virginia, and began her career as a teacher in a rural schoolhouse near Charlottesville, Virginia. Then, Galef moved back to New York, where she worked as a teacher in Scarsdale, New York. In 1963, she married Steven Galef, a former Westchester County legislator and attorney, with whom she had two children; she remained married to Steven until his death in 1998. She is Jewish.

Legislative career

In 1980, Galef was elected to the Westchester County Board of Legislators, where she represented the 2nd and 9th Districts and served as the minority leader from 1984 until 1992, when she was elected to the Assembly.

Galef was elected to the 90th Assembly District and began her term in 1993. During her time in the Assembly, Galef chaired the Real Property Tax Committee, the Libraries and Education Technology Committee, and the Subcommittee for Rural Health, and was a member of the Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions Committee, the Election Law Committee, the Governmental Operations Committee, and the Health Committee.

In 1997, Galef introduced an amendment to make the language of the New York State Constitution gender neutral. Galef argued that the gendered language of the Constitution was "old-fashioned" and that a change to gender neutral language was "symbolically ... important". New York voters adopted the amendment in November 2001. In 1999, Galef was an early supporter of charter schools in New York. Galef also supported several good government causes, including measures to build consensus with Republican members of the assembly, campaign finance reform, and staff budget parity between the majority and the minority in the Assembly.

In December 2022, Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill introduced by Galef that allows city and town clerks to issue a one-day permit to a non-ordained individual to officiate a specific wedding in New York.

Throughout her legislative career, Galef hosted two television shows, "Dear Sandy" and "Speakout with Sandy Galef", on public access television.

References

"Sandy Galef's Biography".

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