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Three-way race will decide next Ogdensburg City Court judgeship

Posted 7/21/18

By JIMMY LAWTON OGDENSBURG -- In Ogdensburg three candidates are seeking the City Court judge position with primaries set for the Independence, Conservative, Republican, and Democratic party ballot …

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Three-way race will decide next Ogdensburg City Court judgeship

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By JIMMY LAWTON

OGDENSBURG -- In Ogdensburg three candidates are seeking the City Court judge position with primaries set for the Independence, Conservative, Republican, and Democratic party ballot lines.

Gary Alford is running on the Conservative, Independence, Democratic and Republican lines. He will face LeMay and Breen in a primary for the Democratic line and Breen for the Republican, Conservative and Independence nods.

Marcia LeMay is running on the Democratic, Working Families and Women’s Equality party lines.

Ramona Breen is running on the Conservative, Democratic, Independence and Republican party lines.

About the Candidates

• Ramona Breen is a graduate of Ogdensburg Free Academy. She lives with her husband and parents in the same Ford Street house she was born in.

After OFA, she received undergraduate degrees at St. Lawrence University and her law degree at Syracuse University College of Law. Returning to Ogdensburg, she joined DuPré and Small, PC, to begin her career in law.

In 1998, she opened her own law practice at 206 Ford St., moving to 623 Ford St. the next year. Over the past 20 years she has specialized real estate, estate practice, and family law.

• Gary Alford is a part-time Ogdensburg City Court judge. He has practiced law for the past 18 years with offices on Caroline Street.

In February 2014, he was named to the part-time judge position.

Judge Alford earned his undergraduate degree from SUNY Plattsburgh, and his Juris Doctor degree from the University at Buffalo School of Law.

He has served as a director and past president of the St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce, a trustee and treasurer of the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority, and currently serves as a trustee and president of the Morristown Gateway Museum.

His memberships include the St. Lawrence County Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the American Association for Justice.

• Marica LeMay is a 1988 Ogdensburg Free Academy graduate. She served 3.5 years in the St. Lawrence County District Attorney’s Office and became the chief public defender. She has also worked in family court. She later joined Charlie Nash in his law firm Nash & Palm to replace the retiring Charlie Palm, and the law firm was renamed Nash, Palm & LeMay. She continues to try cases in City Court, the justice courts, in County Court, in Family Court, and has some Supreme Court and Surrogate Court trials in her repertoire.

LeMay has more than 22 years of experience ranging from chief public defender, to assistant district attorney.

LeMay earned degrees at Albany Law School and St. Lawrence University.