Assemblyman Getting Married

Assemblyman David Buchwald, D-White Plains, is engaged.

The White Plains resident says he and Lara Samet, a litigation attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, are getting married. The couple has not set a wedding date, though they are looking at the first half of 2014 for the wedding.

Samet is a native of New Jersey and resident of Manhattan. She is a graduate of Duke University (magna cum laude) and NYU School of Law (cum laude). 

Buchwald, a native of Westchester, served on the White Plains Common Council for three years prior to his election to the Assembly in 2012. He represents the towns of Bedford, Harrison, Lewisboro, Mt. Kisco, New Castle, North Castle, North Salem, and Pound Ridge and half of the City of White Plains.

Buchwald is a graduate of Yale University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School (cum laude). For the six years prior to serving in the Assembly, he was an attorney in the tax department at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.