Carl J. Copertino R

BACKGROUND

• Copertino, 67, of Deer Park, is running on the Republican and Conservative party lines in the general election.
• Since 2022, he has been a judicial hearing officer at Suffolk County’s Judicial Traffic and Parking Violation Agency.
• Copertino was appointed by Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone to fill a vacant Babylon District Court seat on the bench in June 2013. After winning the election in Nov. 2013, he held the seat until Dec. 2019.
• He was an assistant district attorney in the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office from 1999 to 2001, assigned to the Rackets Bureau. He joined the State Attorney General’s Office in the Criminal Prosecutions Bureau from Dec 1996 through 1999.
• Copertino graduated from upstate Elmira College in 1978 and received his law degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1981. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1981. After law school, he joined the Navy and became a judge advocate general for seven years.