Phil Steck

For nearly 35 years, Phil Steck has been standing up for what’s right – justice, equal rights, and economic opportunity.

Phil is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served on the Law Review and participated in the National Moot Court Competition. After law school, he served as an Assistant District Attorney in New York and Rensselaer counties.

Phil later entered private practice, concentrating on civil rights and employment law. For more than three decades, his work has focused on protecting employees’ rights and representing individuals in workplace and civil rights matters.

Phil began his elected career in 1999, when he became the first Democrat elected from his Albany County Legislative District and the only Democratic elected official in the Town of Colonie at the time. In 2007, while Phil was serving as Democratic chair, Democrats won control of Colonie town government for the first time in the town’s history. Although he stepped down as chair in 2008, he has remained an active member of Colonie’s Democratic team.

Phil served three full terms and part of a fourth term in the Albany County Legislature, winning between 62% and 80% of the vote in his four elections. His legislative district included Loudonville, Menands, Schuyler Heights and Mannsville in the Town of Colonie.

In 2012, Phil won a four-way Democratic primary and the general election to represent the 110th Assembly District. He was first sworn into the New York State Assembly in January 2013 and has won re-election in every election since. Phil was most recently re-elected in 2024 with approximately 53% of the vote, securing his seventh term. The 110th Assembly District includes the towns of Colonie and Niskayuna, part of the Town of Guilderland and part of the City of Schenectady.

Phil chairs the Assembly Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. He also serves on the Health; Insurance; Judiciary; Labor; and Oversight, Analysis and Investigation committees.

Phil served as a delegate for Bernie Sanders at the 2016 and 2020 Democratic National Conventions.