Alice Green

Alice Green (1939 or 1940 – August 20, 2024) was an American activist and prison reform advocate, living in Albany, New York, who was the Green Party candidate for lieutenant governor in 1998, and its Albany mayoral candidate in 2005. Green founded the Center for Law and Justice in 1985, and was its executive director.

Early life, education, and early career Green was born in Greenville South Carolina and raised in a small town in the Adirondacks area of Upstate New York in the early 1940s, and raised in “the Champlain Valley hamlet of Witherbee.”

She worked as a secondary school teacher, a social worker, and as the Executive Director of the Trinity Institution (as of March 2009, the Trinity Alliance for the Capital Region).

She was legislative director for the New York Civil Liberties Union in the 1980s.

In 1985, Governor Mario Cuomo appointed Green as a member of the Citizens Policy and Complaint Review Council of New York State Commission on Corrections.

In 2005, Green was a candidate for mayor of Albany, She lost the race against incumbent Mayor Jerry Jennings, but garnered about 25% of the vote in November.

In 2008, Green served as a member of the committee to fill vacancies for Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, but was later a contributor to Democrat Barack Obama.

Activism work Green was the executive director of the Center for Law and Justice, a not-for-profit community organization, for many years. As part of her work, she was an EEO compliance officer.

She was an adjunct professor at the University at Albany, and wrote and lectured frequently on racism and criminal justice issues. She was often sought out by members of the media for comment on such issues. In an interview for NEWS10, she said that if the SUNY Albany students (Alexis Briggs, Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell - ABC STUDENTS), did attack first and were the ones being racist, they should be asked to apologise and not be punished. NEWS10 Video

She was the co-author, with Frankie Y. Bailey, of two books: Law Never Here: A Social History of African American Responses to Issues of Crime and Justice (1999), and Wicked Albany: Lawlessness & Liquor in the Prohibition Era (2009).

Legacy and personal life Green won numerous awards for her activism in the Capital District, including from the New York State Bar Association, NAACP, and Rockefeller College. as well as racist and vicious criticism directed at her.

Her papers have been collected for the library at the University of Albany.

Green was married to Charles L. Touhey, president of Touhey Associates, who also serves on the board of the Center For Law and Justice, Inc.

Electoral history

+General election results 1998 Governor candidate Lt. Gov. Running mate Party Popular Vote George E. Pataki Mary O. Donohue Republican, Conservative Party of NY 2,571,991 54.32% Peter F. Vallone Sr. Sandra Frankel Democratic, Working Families 1,570,317 33.16% B. Thomas Golisano Laureen Oliver Independence Party of NY 364,056 7.69% Betsy McCaughey Ross Jonathan C. Reiter Liberal Party of NY 77,915 1.65% Michael Reynolds Karen Prior NY State Right to Life 56,683 1.20% Al Lewis Alice Green Green Party US 52,533 1.11%Other partiesLess than 1%