Biography:
Judi Bosworth (D-Great Neck) is serving her first term as Nassau County Legislator after being overwhelmingly elected to represent the 10th Legislative District. Her district includes all of Great Neck, the majority of Manhasset, North Hills, North New Hyde Park and parts of Herricks.
Legislator Bosworth’s priorities include being responsive to constituent issues, advocating for the environment and ensuring that residents have access to government services. She serves as Chair of the Legislative Committee on Education; Chair of the Towns, Villages and Cities Committee; Vice Chair of the Minority Affairs Committee and is a member of the Finance, Economic & Community Development, Government Services & Operations and Veterans Committees. As chair of the newly-formed Education Committee, she has expanded the Legislature’s role in reviewing the Nassau Community College budget. She also supported the new law that provides tuition reimbursement to volunteer first responders As an active legislator, she sought to protect the environment by sponsoring the new Green Procurement Law and the Mosquito Spraying Notification Law, she championed legislation minimizing the impact of plastic bags on the environment and she voted for the acquisition of more land for open space in the county. In addition, Legislator Bosworth has supported a variety of laws that promote public safety, such as a law banning text-messaging while driving, a law preventing sex offenders from living near places where children gather, a law limiting the use of a deceptively colored handgun, and legislation providing for notification concerning heroin activity. As a member of the newly-formed Veterans’ Committee, she also voted for a Cold War veterans tax exemption law to expand the exemption for veterans to include those who served during the Cold War.
Legislator Bosworth is committed to serving her community and bringing constituent services to the 10th Legislative District. In her first term in office, she has provided free glaucoma screenings and mammograms, held a series of property tax grievance meetings and Property Tax Exemption seminars, an Information and Assistance Fair, a Hurricane Preparedness meeting and several Emergency Preparedness meetings. In April, she brought Operation Safe Stop, a program designed to educate the public about the dangers of illegally passing a stopped school bus, to her district. She has attended and participated in numerous town, village, senior center and other community organization events and meetings and has met individually with Mayors, School Superintendents, community leaders and constituents to hear their concerns and their objectives.
Legislator Bosworth was a Trustee of the Board of Education of the Great Neck Public Schools for sixteen years, serving as President, Vice-President and Board Liaison to the Great Neck Senior Center. Legislator Bosworth was former Assemblyman Thomas P. DiNapoli’s Special Projects Coordinator. In that capacity she was instrumental in bringing governmental and health services directly into the community.
Having a life-long commitment to the community, Legislator Bosworth is a member of the Board of Directors of the Great Neck-Manhasset Community Child Care Partnership, the Great Neck Community Fund and the Great Neck Arts Center. She is also a member of the Advisory Boards of the Open Door Parent-Child Caring Center and Foundation of Community Unified Services, Inc. (FOCUS) and a member of the Rotary Club of Great Neck. In short, she is an active participant in the community she serves.
In recognition of her strong advocacy and work on behalf of the community, former State Senator Michael Balboni named Judi Bosworth a 2004 New York State Senate Woman of Distinction; the Nassau County Legislature, in 2003, selected Judi as Trailblazer of the New Millennium and in 2001 she was named to the Town of North Hempstead’s May W. Newburger Women’s Roll of Honor.
A former New York City Public School elementary teacher, Legislator Bosworth received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Early Childhood Education from City University of New York at Queens College. Judi and her husband, Dr. Jay Bosworth, reside in Great Neck. They have two adult children, Brian, a physician, and Michael, an attorney. Brian and his wife Lauren, an attorney, have two children, Andrew Benjamin and Robin Elizabeth.
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