Audrey Pheffer

Audrey I. Pheffer (born August 13, 1941) Pheffer was re-elected many times, and remained in the Assembly until 2011, sitting in the 187th, 188th, 189th, 190th, 191st, 192nd, 193rd, 194th, 195th, 196th, 197th, 198th and 199th New York State Legislatures. She was Chairwoman of the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection from 1995 to 2011. In the past she has chaired the Assembly's Election Law Committee and the Subcommittee on Outreach and Oversight of Senior Citizen Programs, and served as President of the National Order of Women Legislators from 1995 to 1996.

In 2001 Pheffer launched a run for Queens Borough President before ultimately withdrawing from the race.

In 2011, she resigned from the State Assembly after being appointed to the position of County Clerk of Queens County. She is ex officio a clerk of the New York Supreme Court and Commissioner of Jurors of Queens. In 2016, her daughter Stacey Pheffer Amato was elected to her mother's old Assembly seat, becoming the first such same-seat mother-daughter combination in the Assembly's history.