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News | 03.13.15

Danielle Lesser, Chair of the Women in the Law Committee, Federal Bar Association, Organizes “Meet the Chiefs” — Honoring the Four Women Chief Judges of SDNY and EDNY

March 13, 2015 - Danielle C. Lesser, Morrison Cohen Partner and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Business Litigation Department, as Chair of the Women in the Law Committee, Federal Bar Association, organized the “Meet the Chiefs” event on March 4, 2015, honoring the four women chief judges of the Southern District of New York and the Eastern District of New York:

Chief Judge Loretta A. Preska, Southern District of New York
Chief Judge Carol Bagley Amon, Eastern District of New York
Chief Judge Cecelia G. Morris, Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York
Chief Judge Carla E. Craig, Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of New York

The event, attended by lawyers and many state and federal judges, included an introduction of the Chief Judges by Second Circuit Chief Judge Robert Katzmann and the Chief Magistrate Judges of the Southern and Eastern Districts.

The Women in the Law Committee of the Federal Bar Association, Southern and Eastern District chapters, sponsored the event, which took place at the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse in Lower Manhattan. Co-sponsors included the New York Women's Bar Association, the Westchester Women’s Bar Association, as well has several law firms.

Click here to see photograph of the four women chief judges courtesy of New York Law Journal.
 

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