School of Industrial and Labor Relations faculty member and Ithaca native Iris Packman ’06 announced her candidacy for the Tompkins County Legislature seat for District 3 on Feb. 24, receiving endorsements from Susan Currie, the current county legislator for the district, and the Working Families Party.  Packman currently works as a senior research and policy development associate at the ILR School’s Climate Jobs Institute, noting that she hopes to utilize her expertise in labor and climate policy when in office.  “As a lawyer, to watch the constitution at a federal level be really threatened is terrifying [and] kind of shakes the foundation of what I believe in and what I…