Jerry Cosgrove

Jerry Cosgrove is Farm Legacy Director and a Senior Advisor for American Farmland Trust and is Of Counsel at the law firm of Scolaro, Fetter, Grizanti and McGough, P.C.  He combines a farming background, legal experience and a long history of nonprofit work and public service. During his career, he has worked on a range of agricultural, conservation, farm transfer, land access and rural development issues. He grew up on his family’s dairy farm in Clinton in central New York.  Jerry graduated from Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences with a degree in agriculture.  He also graduated from Cornell Law School and is licensed to practice law in New York.  He is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the American Agricultural Law Association.