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Tuesday's primary for a newly created Schenectady County Family Court seat will only be the first of two steps in seeing who will ultimately fill the new role.

Four Democratic attorneys are facing off in the primary, and one of the Democrats is also in a challenge against November's GOP pick in two third-party races.

Republican Deanna L. Siegel, who will run in the general election, is running in a primary on the Conservative and Working Families lines Tuesday against Democrat Ursula Hall. The Times Union failed to mention Siegel and Hall's two races in a story on the Schenectady County Family Court Judge race Sunday. The Times Union also did not say that both Siegel and Hall will be running in the general election regardless of the outcome of Tuesday's primaries. Hall has secured the Independence and Green Party lines for November.

On primary day, Hall is also running for that line against three other Democrats: Jill Polk, Patricia Rodriguez and Bruce Trachtenberg.

All five attorneys have at one time worked along side each other in Schenectady County Family Court.

Siegel, 57, of Duanesburg, said she worked as an attorney for the county Department of Social Services for 21 years, before retiring in 2007. She now runs a private practice in Schenectady, representing clients in family court. The mother of two said she has a good perspective in that she has represented the county on one side of the rail, and family members on the other side.

Trachtenberg, 61, has been in private practice for 35 years. Rodriguez, 56, has worked in Schenectady County Family Court since 1998. Hall, 40, also currently works in Family Court and previously was a Department of Social Services attorney.

Polk, 53, has represented adults and children in Family Court, and currently prosecutes judges for ethical violations. All are from Niskayuna.

The seat has no incumbents as it was created as one of the new Family Court judge positions by the State Legislature. Mark Powers and Kevin Burke are the other Schenectady County Family Court judges.

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