22 THE COURIER SUN • JANUARY 12, 2017 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com PERSON OF THE YEAR 2016 Audrey Pheffer... Through the Years Justice Moses Weinstein swears in Audrey Pheffer as Democratic district leader in 1983. Audrey Pheffer (second from right) with colleagues including City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz, Democratic District Leader Bob Rothermel and Glenn Riddell. A staunch supporter of Aqueduct Racetrack while in the Assembly, Pheffer appeared at the track in 2011 for a Winner’s Circle award presentation. Among those she is pictured with are NYS Racing and Wagering Board Chairman John Sabini and Community Board 10’s Betty Braton, Karyn Peterson and Donna Gilmartin. (NYRA photo) County Clerk Pheffer (at left) officiated over the August 2012 wedding of City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer and his partner, Dan Hendrick. The nuptials came three months after New York State authorized same-sex marriage. Pheffer is shown in this 2012 Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach dinner along with City Councilman Eric Ulrich, retired Judge Augustus Agate, New York Families for Autistic Children President Andrew Baumann and Kiwanians. Then-Assemblywoman Pheffer and a contingent of Queens elected officials hosted Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown during his March 2010 visit to Albany. Pictured from left to right are Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, then-Assemblywoman (and now Congresswoman) Grace Meng, Pheffer, State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, Brown, State Senator Joseph Addabbo and then-State Senator Frank Padavan. Queens County Clerk Audrey Pheffer was honored by the Queens Center for Progress in 2016. She is pictured with Assemblyman David Weprin and NYPD Assistant Chiefs David Barrere and Diana Pizzuti. (photo via Twitter/@DavidWeprin)
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