THE
COMMISSIONERS
Chair
Hon. Barry
Cozier, Senior
Counsel, LeClair Ryan, former Associate Justice of the Appellate Division,
Second Judicial Department
Vice-Chair
W. Bradley Wendel,
Professor of Law, Cornell University School
of Law
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Commission membership --
Harvey B.
Besunder, Esq.
Partner, Bracken Margolin Besunder LLP --
[unidentified:
former Chairman, Grievance Committee (1984-1986)]
Hon. James M. Catterson
Special Counsel, Kaye Scholer LLP, former Associate Justice,
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department - [unidentified: member of the
1st Departmental Disciplinary Committee (1995)]
Ronald M. Cerrachio, Esq.
Chief Clerk, Richmond County Surrogate’s Court and Member, Grievance
Committee, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Second Judicial
Department, Second,
Eleventh and Thirteenth Judicial Districts
Hon. Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick
Of Counsel and Co-Chair, National Appellate Practice Group, Greenberg
Traurig LLP, Chair of Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary and former
Senior Associate Judge, New York State Court of Appeals
Lance D. Clarke, Esq.
Managing Attorney, Cooke & Clarke and former President, Nassau County Bar
Association
Hon. Jeffrey A. Cohen
Associate Justice, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Second
Judicial Department
John
P. Connors, Jr., Esq.
Partner, Connors & Connors, P.C. and Chairman, Grievance Committee
for the Second, Eleventh and Thirteenth Judicial Districts
Rita DiMartino, M.P.A., B.A., A.A.
Former Vice President of Congressional Relations for AT&T, Member, CUNY
Board of Trustees and Member, Grievance Committee, Appellate
Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department
Vincent E. Doyle III, Esq.
Connors & Vilardo LLP and former president, New York State Bar Association
Monica A. Duffy, Esq.
Chief Attorney, Committee on Professional Standards, Appellate Division of
the Supreme Court, Third Judicial Department [former
chair]
Donna M. England, Esq.
England & England and President-Elect, Suffolk
County Bar Association
Charlotte Moses Fischman, Esq.
General Counsel, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP and Special Counsel to
the Policy Committee of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee, First
Judicial Department [unidentified is that she was for many years a member of
DDC]
Emily F. Franchina, Esq.
Founding Partner, Franchina & Giordano, P.C.
Prof. Stephen Gillers
Elihu Root Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Robert J. Giuffra, Jr., Esq.
Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Nicholas A. Gravante, Jr., Esq.
Administrative Partner and General Counsel, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
-- unidentified member of DDC
Robert P. Guido,
Esq.
Executive Director for Attorney Matters, Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court, Second Judicial Department [unidentified:
previously served for 22 years as counsel to the Grievance Committee for the
Tenth Judicial District, serving as Chief Counsel from 2001 -2005]
Sarah Jo Hamilton, Esq.
Partner, Scalise, Hamilton & Sheridan LLP, former Special Trial Counsel and
First Deputy Chief Counsel, Departmental Disciplinary Committee, Appellate
Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department
Peter James Johnson, Jr., Esq.
President, Leahey & Johnson, P.C., and Chairman, Committee on Character and
Fitness, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department
Frederick C. Johs, Esq.
Founding Partner, Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles LLP and Vice Chairman,
Grievance Committee for the Tenth Judicial District
Hon. E. Michael Kavanagh
Neutral, National Arbitration and Mediation (NAM) and
former Associate
Justice, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First and Third Judicial
Departments
Devika Kewalramani, Esq.
Partner and General Counsel, Moses & Singer, and Chair of the New York City
Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Discipline
Glenn Lau-Kee, Esq.
Partner, Kee & Lau-Kee, and President, New York State Bar Association
Hal R. Lieberman, Esq.
Partner, Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, and co-author of “New York
Attorney Discipline” [unidentified: former Chief Counsel of 1st
Department Disciplinary Committee]
Hon. Stephen K. Lindley
Associate Justice, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Fourth Judicial
Department
Christopher D. Lindquist, Esq.
Principal Appellate Court Attorney, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,
Fourth Judicial Department
Hon. Angela M. Mazzarelli
Associate Justice, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial
Department
William T. McDonald, CPA, M.B.A.
Partner and Healthcare Department Head, EFP Rotenberg, and Member, Grievance
Committee, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Fourth Judicial
Department, Seventh Judicial District
Sean Michael Morton, Esq.
Deputy Clerk of the Court, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Third
Judicial Department
Hon. Eugene L. Nardelli
Counsel, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, and
former Associate Justice,
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department
Jerold R. Ruderman, Esq.
Of Counsel, Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP, and Chairman,
Grievance Committee for the Ninth Judicial District
Christina Leann Ryba, Esq.
Special Projects Counsel for the Presiding Justice, Appellate Division of
the Supreme Court, Third Judicial Department ??
Hon. Fred T. Santucci
Former Associate Justice, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Second
Judicial Department, and Executive Director, Committee on Character and
Fitness, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Second Judicial Department
Hon. Peter B. Skelos
Partner, Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo & Terrana, LLP, Former
Associate Justice, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Second Judicial
Department
Sheldon K. Smith, Esq.
Partner, Nixon Peabody, Past President of the Minority Bar Association of
Western New York and Member at Large of the Executive Committee to the New
York State Bar Association
Eun Chong Thorsen, Esq.
Associate, Vishnick McGovern Milizio LLP, Vice President, Korean
American Lawyers Association of Greater New York and Member, Committee on
Character and Fitness, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Second
Judicial Department
Milton L. Williams, Jr., Esq.
Partner, Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C. [unidentified:
member/1st Dept. Disciplinary Committee: Feb 2008 to present]
Akosua Garcia Yeboah
Senior Information Technology Project Manager, City of Albany, and Member,
Committee on Professional Standards, Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court, Third Judicial
Department
Mark C. Zauderer, Esq.
Partner, Flemming Zulack Williamson Zauderer LLP
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