Write-In Deborah Dawson


My experience

2018-2025 – Tompkins County Legislator

— Vice-Chair 2022

Committee assignments:

  • Budget, Capital, & Personnel: 2020, Chair 2021-2023, 2024, Vice-Chair 2025
  • Tompkins Intergovernmental Relations Committee: 2020-2021, Vice-Chair 2025
  • Community Recovery Fund Advisory Board: 2024, Vice-Chair 2025
  • Housing & Economic Development: Vice-Chair 2018, 2025
  • Downtown Facilities: 2023-2024
  • Facilities & Infrastructure: 2023
  • Planning, Energy & Environmental Quality: Chair 2019-2021
  • Government Operations: Vice Chair 2018, 2019-2020
  • Planning, Development, & Environmental Quality: 2018
  • Transportation: 2018

Current and past board assignments:

  • Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit: 2019-2021, 2023, Chair 2024, 2025
  • Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency: 2024, Secretary 2025
  • Soil & Water Conservation District
  • Cayuga Lake Watershed Intermunicipal Organization
  • Planning Advisory Board
  • Lifelong Board

2013-2017 – Village of Lansing Planning Board

  • Member: 2014-2017
  • Alternate member: 2013-2014

2008-2009 – Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Pasadena, CA

2002-2008Federal Trade Commission, Dallas, TX

1991-2002Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Dallas, TX

1990-1991Resolution Trust Corporation, Tampa, FL

1978-1988US Department of Justice, Tax Division, Washington, DC

1975-1978US Army Reserve, 402nd Civil Affairs Company, Tonawanda, NY

1973-1975Erie County Department of Social Services, Buffalo, NY