Justice Douglas Hayden was first elected in 1999 and then re-elected in 2003. Judge Hayden serves on the board of directors of the Nassau County Magistrate Association and is a member of the New York State Magistrate Association. In addition, Justice Hayden is a member of the NYSBA Judicial Section. Throughout his tenure as Floral Park village justice, he has spoken to all civic associations in the village on the role of the Village Court. Justice Hayden has also spoken at all of the schools, including a yearly visit to Floral Park Memorial High School. In addition, he participates in judicial training seminars each year.

An active practicing attorney, he is vice president of Corporate Development for Wright Risk Management (WRM). WRM specializes in risk financing, risk management and risk solutions designed to meet the needs and achieve the objectives of clients in the public, private and non-profit sectors. WRM has formed and runs some of the most innovative and successful risk financial vehicles in the United States including the New York Schools Insurance Reciprocal, New York Municipal Insurance Reciprocal and New York State Municipal Worker's Compensation Alliance. Justice Hayden is also a senior partner at the law firm of Congdon, Flaherty, O'Callaghan, Reid, Donlon, Travis & Fishlinger.

Prior to joining Wright Risk Management, he served as the general attorney/chief legal officer of the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) and also served as interim acting executive director/CEO. NYSIF is a competitive state agency and workers' compensation and disability insurance company insuring 192,000 New York State businesses with $1.6 billion annual premium and $10.2 billion in assets. Best's Review, in its 2005 Guide to Understanding the Insurance Industry listed NYSIF as the eighth largest writer of workers' compensation insurance in the United States. Justice Hayden oversaw a legal department of over 200 employees as well as over 100 law firms located throughout the state and also served as chief ethics officer answering inquiries from 250,000 employees.

As chief legal officer, Justice Hayden established a Compliance Unit at NYSIF to deal with all corporate governance issues and the implementation of best practice standards pursuant to Sarbanes-Oxley. It was the first compliance unit established with respect to all state compensation funds nationwide. Justice Hayden has spoken throughout the country on Sarbanes-Oxley reform and Best Practices on numerous occasions at insurance/legal industry seminars. He also established in-house continuing legal education accreditation for purposes of legal training and continuing education in pertinent areas of the law.

In addition, Justice Hayden, as chief legal officer, was responsible for the first State Fund in the country to establish and adhere to the office of Foreign Asset Control, a subsidiary of the US Treasury Department that tracks money laundering and known terrorist links that uses financial institutions to supplement terrorist organizations. He spoke throughout the country and helps assist other state funds in setting up this compliance program.

Justice Hayden served as chair of the New York State Bar Association's (NYSBA) Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law (TICL) Section, an entity of approximately 3,500 members statewide. He also served on the TICL Executive Committee as vice chairman in 2004, where he was responsible for coordinating legal education seminars throughout the state and received the TICL Section Chair of the Year Award in 2003, as secretary in 2003, and as chair of Continuing Legal Education during 1998-2003. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the NYSBA's Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution, sits on the Executive Committee as immediate-past chair and is presently a section delegate to the NYSBA House of Delegates.

Justice Hayden is a board member for the following legal professional associations: the Board of Directors of the Defense Association of New York, Inc. (DANY), the American Society of Workers' Compensation Professionals, Inc. (AMCOMP) and the Insurance Federation of New York, Inc. (IFNY). In addition, he served as an advisor and chair to the Law Committee of the American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds (AASCIF).

Justice Hayden has been a speaker at numerous insurance industry seminars including, most recently, the New York State Bar Association's Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section's 2006 Annual Winter Meeting on "Lost Wage Claims for Undocumented Workers." Also in 2006, while serving as program chair of AMCOMP's 7th Annual Meeting & Leadership Conference entitled "Today's Workers Compensation Market: Let's Not Roll Dice on Tomorrow's Future," he was the Appellant in "Mock Appellate Court Proceedings - Illegal Aliens and Compensability in the Workers Compensation System: The Debate Rages On." In addition, he was a guest speaker at the Excess Surplus Lines Association Annual Conference, where he addressed Insurance executives on "Sarbanes-Oxley on Corporate Governance and Compliance Issues" and at the American Society of Workers Comp Professionals, Inc. on "Recovering from a Workers Compensation Disaster - Examination to the reaction to 9/11 by the employer, insurer and governmental communities and how to react to a catastrophic event in workers compensation."

Among the articles that Justice Hayden has authored are "Funding Terrorism - How and Why to Set Up a Program to Identify Potential Insurer Links to Terrorist Organizations," which appeared in the September 2005 edition of the New York State Bar Association Journal; "OFAC-Funding Terrorism - How and Why to Set Up a Program to Identify Potential Insurer Links to Terrorist Organizations," which appeared in the April, May and June 2004 editions of AASCIF News-The Newsletter of the American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds; and "The War Hazards Compensation Act and Defense Base Act and the Effects on Increased Workers' Compensation Costs and Risks Resulting from Overseas Injuries," which appeared in the October, November, December 2004 editions of AASCIF News-The Newsletter of the American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds.

Justice Hayden has been active in legislative matters with respect to workers' compensation. In 2004, he testified before the NYS Senate Labor Committee regarding Governor Pataki's continued efforts in workers' compensation reform and the need to drive down the cost of doing business in New York. As chief legal officer, Justice Hayden guided numerous cases involving workers' compensation reform to the Court of Appeals to successful conclusion.

Prior to joining NYSIF, he was assistant district attorney in Nassau County for six years and was actively engaged in trial work and the prosecution of organized crime. In that capacity he dealt with the following law enforcement agencies in the investigation and prosecution of criminal matters: Nassau County Police Department, New York State Police Department; FBI; DEA; United States Postal Inspectors; United States Secret Service; United States Marshals; and other district attorneys throughout the tri-state area. He is a member of the Former Assistant District Attorneys' Association.

A graduate of Hofstra University School of Law (1988), Justice Hayden served as president of the Student Bar Association. He is admitted to the Bar in New York as well as the Eastern and Southern district courts.

He is a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Long Island; Irish Americans in Government; Brehon Law Society; the Knights of Columbus; Floral Park Youth Council and the American Legion, Sons of Legion; and is also active in his community as a CYO basketball coach, Little League coach and soccer coach. He is married to Una and has three children, Conor (9), Ryan (7) and Shannon. (5). He is a lifelong Floral Park resident and the son of the late Caroline Hayden and former Mayor Thomas J. Hayden.