Judge Darren Fairlie
RE-ELECT
Superior courtroom experience and local roots. Re-elect Judge Darren Fairlie for Town Justice in Pleasant Valley, New York.
Vote Local. Vote Experience. Vote Fairlie.
Vote Experience.
I am your current Town Justice, serving an elected, 4-year term from January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2025.
On Thursday evenings, I preside over a local calendar of criminal cases, vehicle and traffic cases, landlord-tenant matters, municipal code enforcement matters and small claims. Additionally, I am on-call 24 hours a day and 7 days a week to preside over criminal arraignments arising in the Town of Pleasant Valley, as well as County-wide felony and adjoining Town misdemeanor arraignments when other local judges are unavailable. I also function as an after-hours Acting Family Court Judge in the Town of Pleasant Valley to adjudicate issues concerning Orders of Protection and Arrest Warrants issued by the Dutchess County Family Court.
I simultaneously serve as Principal Court Attorney to Judge Timothy P. McElduff, Jr. (Orange County Surrogate’s Court Judge, Acting Supreme Court Justice and Acting Family Court Judge). In that capacity, I advise Judge McElduff and write court decisions and orders in New York State Supreme Court, Surrogate’s Court and Family Court.
From 2006 through 2019, I accumulated 14 years of courtroom experience as a local litigation attorney in private practice.
I have spent my entire adult life practicing law locally, working in the courts of our local Ninth Judicial District, living locally and building a business locally.
In 2012, my wife and I started our own family business, Creature Comforts Animal Hospital, in Poughkeepsie. In 2025, Creature Comforts Animal Hospital was named one of “America’s Best Animal Hospitals” by Newsweek Magazine, who ranked Creature Comforts Animal Hospital in the top 500 animal hospitals out of over 15,000 across the country.
Vote Local.
To the Residents of Pleasant Valley
You should expect the best qualified individual to serve as Town Justice.
You should also expect that your Town Officials, including Town Justices, have lived, worked and become invested in the greater community that they propose to serve. I meet both of these expectations.