Jackie Gordon

Jackie Gordon ran for election to the U.S. House to represent New York's 2nd Congressional District. Jackie is a combat veteran, an educator, a public servant and a community leader. While in college and teaching in local schools, she enlisted in the United States Army Reserve. Over her 29-year career in the armed forces, Jackie served our country overseas as a platoon leader in Germany during Operation Desert Storm, as an operations officer at Guantanamo Bay during the Global War on Terror, as a battle captain in Baghdad during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and as commander of the 310th Military Police Battalion in Afghanistan in 2012. She retired from the Army Reserve with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 2014. Since 2007, Jackie has served on the Babylon Town Council, where she has worked to direct resources to veterans and military families as chair of the Veterans Advisory Council. Jackie has spent nearly three decades working in New York public schools.