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Mary O. Donohue REPUBLICAN
Donohue, 51, was elected Rensselaer County state Supreme Court justice in 1996 after serving as district attorney in Rensselaer from 1993 to 1996 and an assistant DA from 1988 to 1992.
She is also running on the Conservative line.
Donohue received a bachelor's degree in English from the College of New Rochelle in 1968, a master's degree in education from Russell Sage College in upstate New York in 1973 and a law degree from Albany Law School in 1983.
She worked for nine years teaching elementary school in upstate New York. She lives in Brunswick.
During her tenure as district attorney, Donohue says there was a 31 percent increase in the number of felony convictions.
She supports the death penalty and favors abortion rights, but she opposes so-called partial-birth, late term abortion.
She has said in the past that she opposes Medicaid funding for abortion, though she announced this year that she now supports it.
Sandra Frankel DEMOCRAT
Frankel, 56, has been the supervisor of the town of Brighton in suburban Rochester since 1991 and is also running on the Working Families line. She worked as a speech language pathologist in public and private schools for 23 years. She was...