Kate Murray (born October 9, 1962) is an American politician and attorney, and the former Supervisor of the Town of Hempstead, New York, United States.
[1] Murray served as advocate for Suffolk University Battered Women's Advocacy Project where she represented the victims of domestic violence.
[1] Her governance was marked by a three-step downgrade of Hempstead's credit rating in Murray's final year as supervisor by Standard & Poor's, which cited the drawing down of reserves and the settlement in a complex tuition payment for the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Kate Murray is credited with losing the election due to the failure of The Lighthouse Project, which she opposed and downsized, and which would have created a large new development at the site of the Nassau Coliseum that also would have served as a newly renovated home for the New York Islanders.
She also apparently believes that Islander fans have gotten past her role in the collapse of the Lighthouse project and that this will not be a factor in her electability going forward.