For over 20 years Mr. Kelley has litigated at both the trial and appellate levels. His experience also includes administrative litigation before the Department of Environmental Conservation and numerous town boards, planning boards, and zoning boards of appeal on Long Island. He has served on the faculty of numerous bar association continuing legal education seminars in the areas of civil procedure, land use and environmental law. Mr. Kelley is a former chairman of the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals and served for 19 years as chairman of the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee. He is president of the Springs School Board and has served on numerous boards of directors for local and Long Island wide charities and not-for-profits including as Junior Warden and Treasurer of St. Luke’s Church in East Hampton.

Graduating with High Honors from the College of William and Mary (1978), Mr. Kelley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Government and earned his Juris Doctor from New York Law School (cum laude, 1981).