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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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