The Hon. Lisa M. Petrocelli is a judge on the Nassau County District Court in the 10th Judicial District of New York. She was elected to the bench on November 3, 2020.
Prior to her election, Petrocelli was a managing attorney at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, holding positions as the executive director of the Access to Justice Incubator (2014 to 2017) and the project director of the Center for Children, Families and the Law (2017 to 2020).
Petrocelli earned a B.A. in English language and literature from the State University of New York at Albany in 1991. She then completed a J.D. at Hofstra University, Maurice A. Deane School of Law, in 1994. She was licensed to practice in New Jersey (1994) and New York (1995).
After graduating from law school, Petrocelli began her legal career as a sole practitioner in her own private practice in Great Neck. She worked in that capacity until 2005, at which time she became a principal law clerk for the New York State Unified Court System.
Her memberships have included the Nassau County Bar Association, the Nassau County Women’s Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Columbia Lawyers Association of Nassau County, and the Kiwanis of the Nassau County Courthouses.
She was a resident of Great Neck, New York, at the time of her election.
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