Brooklyn Bar elects new offi cers,
presents awards at annual meeting
WHAT A NIGHT: From left, Hon. Barry Kamins (retd.); George Farkas; Appellate Division Justice Reinaldo Rivera,
and Hon. David Vaughan at the Brooklyn Bar Assocation’s annual meeting on May 8. Photos by Caroline Ourso
Judge Lillian Wan, center, receives her Diversity Committee Award.
BY MOSES JEFFERSON
Call it raising the bar.
Borough legal eagles
rubbed elbows and toasted
the success of the Brooklyn
Bar Association’s newest
offi cers and trustees at
the group’s Annual Meeting,
Awards and Elections this
month.
The evening of legal liveliness,
held at the Association’s
meeting hall on Remsen
Street Downtown, saw
several worthy candidates
elected to new posts and
many deserving jurists and
Bar Association staffers receive
awards on May 8.
The new offi cers, who will
be offi cially inducted during
Caribbean L 42 ife, May 24–30, 2019
a ceremony at Brooklyn
Law School’s Feil Hall
next month, include: Hon.
Frank V. Carone, president;
Anthony J. Lamberti, president
elect; Armena D. Gayle,
fi rst vice president; Richard
Klass, second vice president;
Joseph Rosato, secretary;
and Anthony Vaughn, Jr.,
treasurer.
The borough Bar Association’s
Trustees Class of 2022
includes: Maria Aragona,
Martin Edelman, Adam Kalish,
Gregory LaSpina, Angélicque
Moreno, Scott Rynecki,
and Pauline Yeung.
Judge George Silver receives his Freda S. Nisnewitz Award for Pro Bono
Service.
Frances Ciorciari, left, receives her award and poses with incoming
president Frank Carone, right.
Justice Sylvia Ash and Judge Genine Edwards.