North Bellmore School District

Rosemarie Corless was first elected to the Board of Education in 2006 and served until 2013. She rejoined the board in October 2018 and is one of the district’s representatives on the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education. Her three daughters attended North Bellmore and Bellmore-Merrick schools. Ms. Corless has worked as a pediatric nurse practitioner, caring for children with cancer, for more than 30 years, including the past nine at Cohen Children’s Medical Center.

Christopher Nardo is a long-time resident of Merrick and currently raising two children, a daughter who attends Mepham High School and a daughter at Martin Avenue School. This is his fourth year serving on the Board of Education and he was a member of North Bellmore’s Reopening Team. He is a New Business Developer at the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, and spent his early career at JP Morgan, Barclays and Citibank in their institutional trading groups. Mr. Nardo holds a master’s degree in finance from Adelphi University and a bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University.

Melissa Cmar-Grote has served on the Board of Education for the past 10 years. She and her husband have two daughters who graduated from Saw Mill Road School, where she twice served as co-president of the PTA. Ms. Cmar-Grote is a licensed clinical laboratory scientist in microbiology at Sunrise Medical Laboratories.

Nina Lanci is the longest-tenured member of the Board of Education in her 21st year and is also a trustee on the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education. She is a past president of the Martin Avenue PTA. Ms. Lanci has the distinction of being the first woman inducted into the Bellmore Lions Club and has served as its president. She and her husband have a daughter who graduated from Martin Avenue School and Mepham High School.

Christine Malloy is in her sixth year on Board of Education and is serving as president for the first time. She has lived in the community for more than a decade and her has four children – three at Mepham High School and one at Saw Mill Road School. Ms. Malloy has been a secondary teacher for nearly two decades, working with both general education and special education students, and also serves as a class adviser and student liaison.