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Delmar, NY- Regina Katherine Treffiletti entered Eternal Life Tuesday, January 24, 2023. Born to Katherine Cosco and John Treffiletti in Albany, New York, Regina was a Graduate of Holy Names Academy, State University of New York (Anthropology) and Albany Law School. Regina passed in her beloved Virgin Islands. Regina and her husband, Tim Carney, were also married in St. Thomas USVI on May 9, 1980. Having lived in the USVI, they traveled to other Caribbean Islands on the sailing sloop "Gabrielle." Regina's love of travel took her and Tim to all Continents (except Antartica) and roughly 30 different countries. Reg loved all cultures, customs and languages wherever they roamed, spending about 10 years as vagabonds. After starting a family they settled in Elsmere, New York. Upon graduating from Albany Law School in 1988, Regina began her career as an Albany County Public Defender in Albany City Court. With the Hon. Thomas Keegan presiding, she so impressed him with her legal knowledge, skill and personality that he invited her to be his principal law clerk when he presided over Albany County Court, then Supreme Court and last as the Administrative Judge for the Third Judicial District. As his principal law clerk and under his signature, she penned several significant precedential opinions that were published in court reports for lawyers and litigants to rely upon in their cases as established law in NYS. Upon Judge Keegan’s retirement, she was appointed Court Attorney Referee for the NYS Unified Court Systems, Third Judicial District. She retired from this position in 2014. While Regina worked tireless hours in her appointed positions, she was equally dedicated to access to justice in our legal system. At the outset of her career as a public defender, she recognized that access to justice for low income and vulnerable people through pro bono legal programs made a tremendous positive impact on clients, our communities and our justice system. She gave hours of herself to pro bono services through the court system and bar associations, including organizing the inaugural 2014 Pro Bono Expo and Community Law Day events in the Capital District. For this professional initiative, she received the NYS Bar Association’s 2014 Excellence in Pro Bono Services Award. Regina was also a well-respected and sought-after lecturer in the legal profession and in local school districts teaching students about our legal system and careers in the law. She especially enjoyed mentoring young girls and women who aspired to join the legal profession. Above all of these professional accomplishments, and too many more to name, Regina was a colleague and friend to judges, attorneys and court personnel. If she could help a colleague, she did. If she could not, she found someone who could – and then followed-up to be sure that the colleague was “all set.” She always had the time to proofread a document, to assist in research, to explain court procedures, to be supportive on a bad day, to congratulate on a good day, and to laugh through it all. Regina spent her summers at her beloved house in Lake George. There she spent her time reading, antiquing, cooking and spending time with the family she loved so much. Regina is survived by her husband Timothy, sons Michael and Gabriel Carney, stepdaughter Nancy Lynch (John Rigamonti) and grandson Austin Rex Rigamonti. Also her sisters Adrienne (William Jones), Anne (late Geoffrey Trimble), Christina and Katherine (Bernard Murphy) as well as her nieces and nephews, Damian and Seaborn Jones, Nicole Porecca (Nicholas Porecca), John Trimble, Troy, Tyler and Tess Murphy, and Sean, Bridget and Shannon Carney. She loved them all dearly. A wonderful colleague, friend, sister, aunt, wife and mother. Special Thanks to her dear and loyal friends Mary Elacqua, Pietro Bartocci, Heidi Gross and Janet Thayer. Relatives and friends are invited to visit with Regina’s family Thursday, February 9, 2023 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Parish of Mater Christi, 40 Hopewell Street, Albany, NY 12208. Funeral services Friday, February 10, 2023 at 10:30 am at the Parish of Mater Christi where her Funeral Mass will be celebrated. The Mass can be viewed on the parish home webpagehttps://mcalbany.org/ To leave a message for the family please visit www.McveighFuneralHome.com In lieu of flowers donations may be made to FINCA and Doctors Without Borders.

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Regina Katherine Treffiletti

February 11, 1951 - January 24, 2023