Noreen Healey

Noreen Healey has served as a Commissioner of the New York State Liquor Authority since June 2006. She is an attorney, a resident of New York City, and only the fourth woman ever to serve as a Commissioner of the Authority.  During the fall of 2006, she was the chairperson of a task force to review the agency’s licensing application process and recommend viable changes and improvements. As chair, she worked with elected officials, law enforcement executives, community board members, community leaders, and industry representatives. The task force reviewed the pertinent laws, analyzed the licensing process and policies, discussed recommendations, and reported its findings and final recommendations. The Authority has implemented many of those recommendations.

Prior to her appointment, Commissioner Healey was a Law Secretary in New York State Supreme Court, Criminal Division, in Kings and Bronx Counties. She also served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Appeals Bureau of the District Attorney’s Office in Kings, Nassau, and Queens Counties for more than twelve years.  Prior to that, she represented the Child Welfare Administration as a litigation attorney in child neglect and abuse proceedings in Manhattan Family Court.

Commissioner Healey is a member of the New York County Lawyers Association, where she has served on the Law-Related Education Committee since 2004. In 2005, she received the Committee’s Pro Bono Award for her contributions in providing law-related education to students in New York City schools. She is also a member of the Brooklyn and New York City Bar Associations, and served on the Social Welfare Committee at the City Bar Association for two years.

Commissioner Healey graduated from Saint John’s University School of Law in Jamaica, Queens and earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Pine Manor College in Massachusetts.  She was awarded the Pine Manor College President’s Cup for Outstanding Scholarship, an award given to the highest ranking senior at graduation.