{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Cecile D. Singer | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1929}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | office = Member of the New York State Assembly | term_start = January 1, 1989 | term_end = December 31, 1994 | predecessor = Gordon W. Burrows | successor = Mike Spano | constituency = {{ubl |84th district (1989-1992) |87th district (1993-1994)}} | spouse = David Singer | children = 2 | party = Republican }}
'''Cecile D. Singer''' (born c. 1929) is an American politician from New York.
==Life== She was born in 1929. The family lived in Forest Hills, Queens. She graduated from Queens College, CUNY.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kFMkAQAAIAAJ&q=cecile+d+singer+queens+college ''New York Red Book''] (1993–1994; pg. 338)</ref> Cecile married David H. Singer (1924–2009),<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E0D7103AF937A25757C0A96F9C8B63 ''Deaths; SINGER, DAVID H.''] in ''The New York Times'' on April 12, 2009</ref> and they had two daughters. They lived for some time in Rockford, Illinois, and then in Chicago. In 1955, they moved to Yonkers, New York.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/09/nyregion/singer-wins-gop-s-assembly-contest.html?pagewanted=2 ''Singer Wins G.O.P.'s Assembly Contest''] by James Feron, in ''The New York Times'' on October 9, 1988 (pg. 2)</ref>
She entered politics as a Republican, and was an aide to Assemblyman Gordon W. Burrows, and executive director of several Assembly committees, for more than twenty years. In 1988, Burrows was nominated for the New York Supreme Court,<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/02/nyregion/an-assembly-race-suddenly-changes.html ''An Assembly Race Suddenly Changes''] by James Feron, in ''The New York Times'' on October 2, 1988</ref> and Cecile Singer was nominated to run for the open Assembly seat.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/09/nyregion/singer-wins-gop-s-assembly-contest.html ''Singer Wins G.O.P.'s Assembly Contest; ...Ms. Singer, who is 59 years old...''] (pg. 1)</ref>
She was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1989 to 1994, sitting in the 188th, 189th, and 190th New York State Legislatures.
She was a director of the Hudson Valley Bank from 1994 to January 1, 2013, and has been Principal of the Cecile D. Singer Consulting firm since 1995.<ref>[https://www.bloomberg.com/article/2012-12-13/aFWmYhSLrDhU.html ''Cecile D. Singer Retires as Director of Hudson Valley Holding Corp. and Hudson Valley Bank''] in ''Bloomberg Business'' on December 13, 2012</ref> She also remained active in the community and women's affairs.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/15/nyregion/helping-businesswomen-network.html ''Helping Businesswomen Network; ...the 70-year-old Ms. Singer...''] by Elsa Brenner, in ''The New York Times'' on October 15, 2000</ref> She lives in Tuckahoe.
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-ny-hs}} {{succession box | before = Gordon W. Burrows | title = New York State Assembly <br>84th District | years = 1989–1992 | after = J. Gary Pretlow}} {{succession box | before = Peter M. Sullivan | title = New York State Assembly <br>87th District | years = 1993–1994 | after = Mike Spano}} {{s-end}}
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