Kevin Cahill

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Kevin Cahill represents District 101 in the New York State Assembly, which comprises large portions of Ulster County and both the town and village of Rhinebeck in Dutchess County. The towns of Woodstock, Ulster, and New Paltz are all part of his district.

Elected to the Assembly in 1998, Cahill is the current Chairman of the Standing Committee on Ethics and Guidance. He also serves on the Health, Higher Education, Ways and Means and Commerce and Industry Committees, among others. He has also served as the Assembly spokesman for Community Corrections, part of the task force on Local Government Finance Reform and the Chairman of the Legislative Task Force on People with Disabilities in the past.

Prior to his election he served as the director of a Medicare health care plan under contract with the Health Care Financing Administration. Cahill is a licensed attorney as well as a former Ulster County legislator from 1986 through 1992, when he served as Minority Leader of the Ulster County Legislature. From 1992 to 1994 he served as the Assemblyman from the 191st district.

Cahill is a graduate of the State University of New York at New Paltz and Albany Law School.