[1] She married, and raised three children in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

She graduated from St. John's University School of Law in 1974, was admitted to the bar in 1975, and worked as an Assistant D.A.

Senator from New York, and defeated Whitney North Seymour, Jr. and Muriel Siebert.

[3] Sullivan was also nominated on the Conservative and the Right to Life[4] tickets to oppose the incumbent Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan at the United States Senate election in New York, 1982, but Moynihan scored a decisive victory over Sullivan, polling almost the double number of votes.

[5] She was a partner in the New York City law firm of Connors & Sullivan.