[1] She is a member of the Democratic Party and previously represented the 42nd district in the New York State Senate from 2019 to 2020, and served on the Rosendale town council from 2013 to 2018.

[2] In 1988, Metzger began work as a public affairs coordinator with the United Nations, and later served as an instructor at the Walt Whitman Center for Culture and Politics of Democracy and Rutgers University.

[5] In February 2018, Metzger announced that she would challenge longtime Republican Senator John Bonacic for his seat.

[2] In 2019, she voted for the Green Light Law, which allowed undocumented immigrants to obtain driver licenses.

The race was held to fill the unexpired term of former Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan, who left office in September 2022 to become the U.S. representative for New York's 19th congressional district.