Joseph Nocella Jr.

BACKGROUND

• Nocella, 60, of Seaford, is running on the Democratic, Republican and Conservative party lines in the general election.
• Nocella was appointed Nassau County District Court Judge in 2022 and was elected to the position that November.
• He was Hempstead Town Attorney from 2021 to 2022 and the Hempstead Town supervisor’s chief of staff from 2020 to 2021.
• Nocella was Oyster Bay Town Attorney from 2017 to 2020. In Nassau County government, he was counsel to the Office of Housing & Community Development from 2014 to 2017, managing attorney in the county attorney’s office from 2011 to 2014 and counsel to the Nassau County executive and legislature from 2010 to 2011 and 2006 to 2008.
• He was an assistant U.S. attorney in the criminal division of the Justice Department in the Eastern District from 1991 to1995. Nocella also worked in litigation at private law firms in New York and Los Angeles from 1989 to 1990 and from 1995 to 2010.
• Nocella received his bachelor's degree from Fordham University in 1986 and graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1989. He was admitted to the New York State bar in 1990.