Jacqueline A. Gordon

term as member expires in March 2024. Ms. Gordon is a Copiague resident, a 13-year former Babylon Town Board member, long-time school counselor and U.S. Army veteran. Even while serving as an elected town board member, Gordon also served her country in the U.S. Army Reserves as a military police officer from 1984 to 2014. She was deployed four times--serving in Germany during Operation Desert Storm; as an operations officer at Guantanamo Bay; as a battle captain in Baghdad during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq; and as commander of the 310th Military Police Battalion in Afghanistan in 2012.

Gordon also spent a quarter century as a school counselor for Western Suffolk BOCES in Farmingdale, where she helped students and provided crisis intervention when social or behavioral issues affected their educational and vocational aspirations. She graduated from CUNY Hunter College with a B.A.in health education in 1987, a M.S. degree in counselor education in 1997 and a professional diploma in educational leadership in 2006.

The appointment of Gordon was a historic one, as it created the first female majority board in SCWA’s 70-year history.