Colonie Town Justice Peter Crummey and Ulster County lawyer Julian Schreibman face off on Election Day Tuesday for the right to occupy a state Supreme Court judgeship in the seven-county 3rd Judicial District.

A seat is open in the district that includes Albany, Rensselaer, Ulster, Schoharie, Greene, Columbia and Sullivan counties due to the upcoming retirement of Karen Peters, the present justice of the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court, Third Department.

Crummey, 60, a Republican also running on the Independence and Reform Party lines, is a graduate of Albany Law School admitted to the bar in 1983. The father of five children has been a town justice for more than 17 years. He serves as the court's senior justice and administrator.

Crummey has previously worked as an Albany County legislator and minority leader, prosecutor in the Colonie and Menands traffic courts and as an attorney for the town of Colonie.

He received a rating of "qualified" from the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commissions.

Schreibman, of Ulster Park, a Democrat also running on the Working Families line, is a partner in the firm of Wachtel Missry in Kingston.

Schreibman, a graduate of Yale Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1998. He has prior experience as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan and the Ulster County district attorney's office, where he was a senior assistant. He also worked as a general counsel for the federal Central Intelligence Agency and was an associate at the firm of Baker & McKenzie in Manhattan.

Schreibman, a father of three children, who turns 45 this month, received a rating of "qualified" from the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commissions.