One year after first getting sworn in to the bench, Nassau County Judge Elizabeth Fox- McDonough has been moved up to supervising judge of the county's District Court.

Fox-McDonough, 56, a 1987 graduate of St. John's University School of Law, spent the first ten years of her legal career as a prosecutor in the Queens District Attorney's Office. She has also worked as a law secretary for Queens Supreme Court Justice Barry Kron.

In 2017, Fox-McDonough was clerking for Judge Norman St. George, then the District Court's supervising judge, when she made a run to be on the bench herself.

Fox-McDonough, who ran on the Democratic line, won her countywide seat on the bench after a tight race with Judge Darlene Harris, a Republican candidate, in which more than 279,500 were votes cast. Fox-McDonough won by a margin of less than 6,000 votes and Harris retained a District Court seat. 

Fox-McDonough succeeds in the supervising judge position her former boss, St. George, who has been appointed administrative judge of Nassau County's courts. Prior to her appointment to the new position, Fox-McDonough served as president of the Nassau District Court Board of Judges.    

Fox-McDonough “is a judge of great intellect and integrity and who treats litigants and lawyers alike with fairness and impartiality,” St. George said in a written statement. “I am confident that as Supervising Judge, she will serve the people of Nassau with distinction and will build upon the outstanding work being done by the dedicated judges and staff at the District Court.”