Joanie Mahoney

Joanne M. "Joanie" Mahoney (born 1965) is the fifth president of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), in Syracuse, New York.

Personal Mahoney was raised in Syracuse, New York, as the middle child of nine children. Her father, Bernie Mahoney, was a member of the Syracuse Common Council and then the New York State Assembly.

She is married to Marc Overdyk and has four children.

Career Early career Mahoney worked as an attorney with the Harris Beach law firm as well as a criminal prosecutor in the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office. She left the position in 1997 to become a full-time, stay-at-home mother, but decided to run for a seat on the Syracuse Common Council. It was the closest mayoral race in over 80 years for Syracuse.

County executive In February 2007, long-time incumbent County Executive Nicholas J. Pirro announced his retirement. Mahoney decided to run, but failed to win the endorsement of the Onondaga County Republican Party. The Republicans endorsed Dale Sweetland, Chairman of the County Legislature. The Post-Standard, the local newspaper in Syracuse; and Republican presidential-hopeful Rudy Giuliani, who is popular in upstate New York.

Mahoney won the election by a wide margin, earning 58% of the vote to Magnarelli's 36% . On November 19, 2007, Mahoney announced the names of her transition team that would ease the switch from Pirro's administration to hers. As she had promised on the campaign trail, it was a bipartisan team of Republicans and Democrats. The honorary co-chairs of her transition team were Republican County Executive Nick Pirro and former Syracuse Mayor Thomas Ganley Young, a Democrat.

Mahoney was inaugurated as Executive of Onondaga County on January 1, 2008. She was reelected in 2012, and again in 2016.

Presidency at SUNY-ESF In September 2018, Mahoney announced her resignation as county executive, midway through her third term, to take a position as chief operating officer with the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF).

Electoral history

Totals for each candidate are for all lines Mahoney ran as a Republican and under the Fresh Start Party line William Magnarelli ran as a Democrat and under the Working Families Party line Dale Sweetland ran under the Conservative and Independence Parties of New York Ed Ryan ran under the It's Your County Party line

Totals for each candidate are for all lines