Jean Parvin Bordewich

Bordewich, 57, served on the Red Hook Town Board for nine years beginning in 1998, ran Schumer’s Hudson Valley operation from 2000 until the end of 2006 and then became Hall’s chief of staff. In 1998, she ran unsuccessfully against U.S. Rep. John Sweeney, R-Clifton Park, in New York’s 20th Congressional District. Sweeney was unseated in 2006 by Kirtsen Gillibrand, D-Greenport, who just won her second two-year term. Bordewich’s first experience with U.S. Senate came soon after she graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in the classics — she specialized in ancient Greek — when she became the press secretary for U.S. Sen. Richard Stone of Florida. She held that post from 1975-81. She later received a master’s degree in business administration from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Bordewich’s husband, Fergus, is a published author, whose books include “Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America” and “Killing the White Man’s Indian.”