12 Facts About Carol Berman

Carol Berman was an American Democratic Party politician in New York, from Lawrence, in Nassau County.

Carol Berman served in the New York State Senate from 1979 to 1984.

Carol Berman announced in August 1978 that her group was seeking to raise $100,000 to be used to help fund a lawsuit against the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and encouraged other area residents to sue the Port Authority.

Carol Berman was a district aide in the offices of Assemblyman Eli Wager and of Representative Herbert Tenzer.

Carol Berman was vice chairman of the Nassau County Democratic Committee and was a delegate for Henry M "Scoop" Jackson at the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City.

Carol Berman died on October 17,2023, at the age of 100.

Carol Berman was a member of the New York State Senate from 1979 to 1984, sitting in the 183rd, 184th, and 185th New York State Legislatures.

Carol Berman was first elected in November 1978 in the 9th District which included portions of southwestern Nassau County, including the Atlantic Ocean communities of Point Lookout and Long Beach, along with the Five Towns, and then crossed over into southeastern Queens, including Rosedale, Springfield Gardens, and South Jamaica, all of which encircle Kennedy Airport.

Carol Berman, running on the Democratic and Liberal party lines won the race by 6,108 votes.

Carol Berman filed a $6 million suit against Skelos in Nassau Supreme Court, citing campaign literature that she claimed mischaracterized her positions on the use of plain language in insurance policies and on busing children across county lines.

Carol Berman challenged Skelos in their third consecutive state senate contest in 1986.

In September 2006 Carol Berman made news when she broke her ankle during a fall into a 10-inch-wide gap between a Long Island Rail Road train and the platform at the LIRR's Lawrence station.