Westchester County Legislator Catherine Parker (D) represents the 7th Legislative District covering Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Rye, part of Harrison and part of New Rochelle. Ms. Parker served as a Rye City Councilwoman (Ind) from 2007 until her election to the County Board in 2013.

A self proclaimed environmentalist, Catherine Parker was the only sitting City Council member serving under Mayor Steve Otis or his successor Mayor Douglas French to ever accept an invitation to tour Hen Island with Ray Tartaglione except for new Rye Mayor Joe Sack. Unlike Mr. Sack, Ms. Parker toured the island off-season when the seasonal mosquito infestation was not present. Despite this, she saw the unsafe and unsanitary conditions firsthand and then returned to diminish and dismiss them on public TV. Her answers to Mr. Tartaglione’s questions and her characterizations of conditions she knew to exist were, in a word, incredible, and they have been memorialized in City Council meeting minutes and video archives.

County Legislator Parker is a native of Bedford NY who now lives and owns a retail store in downtown Rye.