Ginny Fields

Fields was chosen to represent this district in a special election held on March 9, 2004 due to incumbent Steve Levy's resignation to be become Suffolk County Executive.[2] She was re-elected in 2006 and again in 2008, when she defeated Republican opponent John Bugler. In September 2010, she lost the Democratic primary race to Ken Mangan.[3] Fields ran in the 2010 general election on the Independence and Working Families party lines, but was defeated by Republican Al Graf.[4]

Fields previously served as a lawmaker in the Suffolk County Legislature (2000–2003), where she chaired the Health Committee. Prior to her election to the legislature she served as a health care administrator for 37 years.

In 2015, Fields left the Democratic Party and registered as a Republican.[5]

Fields resides in Oakdale, New York. She and her husband Walter have two grown sons.[1] She and her son William made news in 2009, when neighbors filed a lawsuit charging that they launched an intimidation campaign in a dispute over a school bus stop near Fields' property.[6][7] Ginny Fields has also expressed racism through Facebook comments such as "What the heck is a black man looting, burning, throwing knives at police, vandalizing, and mindlessly destroying communities being defined as black vs. racism???? This is black men destroying their own communities! IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACISM WHEN THEY CAN'T CONTROL THEIR OWN BEHAVIOR! It's an opportunity for them to loot and burn and cause chaos!" in response to the 2020 protests and riots as a result of the murder of George Floyd.