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- ↑ 15th Assembly District Candidates; Donna Ferrara Archived December 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine in the Plainview Old Bethpage Herald on November 1, 2002; at Anton News
- ↑ Ferrara Selected to Chair NYS Workers' Compensation Board Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine in The Westbury Times on August 11, 2006; at Anton News
- ↑ Centennial of the New York State Workers' Compensation Board (Agency Chairs; pg. 16)
- ↑ "DONNA FERRARA 2005 – July 2013" Archived 2015-04-29 at the Wayback Machine by Michael T. Berns, at Inside Workers Comp NY