Charles A. Gardner

Prior to taking the bench in the busiest court of the county, Charles Gardner retired as a Regional Training Lieutenant from the New York State Department of Corrections with an unblemished twenty-five-year career. He was the liaison between the administrations of the dozen prisons located in Northern New York and the New York State Department of Corrections Training Academy in Albany, NY. He managed the training of nearly 5,000 security and civilian staff members employed at the “north country” prisons. Gardner attended the State University of New York at Potsdam, New York.