Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D, IP, WP)
Senate Majority Leader
35th Senate District
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District Office
28 Wells Avenue, Building #3
Yonkers, NY 10701
Phone: (914) 423-4031
Fax: (914) 423-0979
Albany Office
188 State Street Room 907, Legislative Office Building
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: (518) 455-2585
Fax: (518) 426-6811
Committee Membership
Andrea Stewart-Cousins is the first woman in the history of New York State to lead a conference in the New York State Legislature .
Ms. Stewart-Cousins was first elected to the New York State Senate in 2006.
Prior to her Senate service, Stewart-Cousins was a Westchester County Legislator from 1996 to 2006.
After the Democratic Party won an outright Senate majority in the 2018 elections, Stewart-Cousins became Majority Leader in January 2019.
Stewart-Cousins first ran for New York State Senate in 2004, but was defeated by 18 votes by incumbent Republican Sen. Nicholas Spano.
In 2006, she challenged Nick Spano again and defeated him.
As of 2019, Senate District 35 includes all of Greenburgh and Scarsdale and portions of Yonkers, White Plains and New Rochelle .
Stewart-Cousins was born in 1951 in Yonkers, New York. She earned her Bachelor of Science Degree from Pace University and her teaching credentials in Business Education from Lehman College.
She received her Masters of Public Administration from Pace University in May 2008 and is a member of Pi Alpha Alpha, the public administration honor society.
She spent twenty years in the private sector, including thirteen years in sales and marketing with New York Telephone.
She also pursued a career in journalism and teaching before entering public service.
Stewart-Cousins’s public service career began in 1992, when she was appointed as the Director of Community Affairs in the City of Yonkers.
Stewart-Cousins was married to the late Thomas Cousins.
She has three children and four grandchildren