BioJonathan R. Sennett is seeking election to a four-year term as District Attorney of Ulster County. He presently works as a solo attorney practicing criminal, civil rights and family law in courts located mainly in Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan counties, as well as the federal courts in Albany and White Plains. In addition to his private practice, he works part time as an Assistant Public Defender in Ulster County. Born and raised in New York state, Jonathan R. Sennett received his Bachelor's Degree, cum laude, from the University of Maryland at College Park and his law degree from Brooklyn Law School. He began his career asan attorney in the Office of the Bronx County District Attorney in January 1994. During his first two years, he led a team of ten assistant district attorneys each handling nearly one hundred misdemeanor cases at all times. He spent the next 12 months conducting hundreds of grand jury investigations in cases ranging from gun possession to homicide. For the following two and one-half years, Sennett tried approximately 30 violent felony cases before over ten different judges. Throughout his tenure as a prosecutor, he maintained a reputation as hard hitting yet fair, knowledgeable on the law, practical in his approach to the system and ever vigilant in his pursuit of justice. In June, 1999, shortly after the birth of his first child he left the District Attorney's Office to enter private practice, where he represented terminally ill clients in asbestos products liability cases in state and federal courts from Massachusetts to Texas. In 2000, he and his family moved to New Paltz. In 2002, he relocated his practice to the Hudson Valley, and has since tried cases in nearly all levels of trial courts and argued cases to the appellate courts in Albany. Jonathan has been married for over ten years to Mari Ann Connolly Sennett, herself a former Bronx County Assistant District Attorney. They live in New Paltz with their two young daughters, Shaena and Aedan.
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