Commission Members

Chair

Henry M. Greenberg
Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig; Counsel to the Commission on Judicial Nomination; past president, New York State Bar Association

 

Members

Hon. Rolando T. Acosta
Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Hon. Ariel E. Belen 
JAMS Mediator & Arbitrator; retired Associate Justice of the Appellate Division, Second Department & Administrative Judge of the Supreme Court, Kings County

Mark A. Berman
Partner, Ganfer Shore Leeds & Zauderer, LLP; founding chair of the Law & Technology Committee of the New York State Bar Association

T. Andrew Brown
Managing Partner, Brown Hutchinson LLP; past president, New York State Bar Association

Hon. Anthony Cannataro
Associate Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Hon. Michael V. Coccoma
Former Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for Courts outside of New York City & Justice of the New York Supreme Court

Mylan L. Denerstein
Partner, Gibson Dunn LLP

Hon. Craig J. Doran
Justice of the New York Supreme Court

Richard A. Edlin
Vice-Chairman, Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Hon. Michael J. Garcia
Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals

Robert J. Giuffra, Jr
Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Dennis E. Glazer
Retired Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell

Seymour James
Partner, Barkett Epstein Kearon Aldea & LoTurco; past president, New York State Bar Association; former Attorney-in-Charge of the Criminal Defense Practice, Legal Aid Society of New York City

Brad S. Karp
Chairman, Paul, Weiss

Roger Juan Maldonado
Partner, Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP; former President of the New York City Bar Association

Mary McQueen
President & CEO, National Center for State Courts

Hon. Edwina G. Richardson
Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for Justice Initiatives

Laurette D. Mulry
Attorney-in-Charge, Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County, Inc.

Jack Newton
Chief Executive Officer, CLIO

Sharon M. Porcellio
Member, Bond Schoeneck & King

Paul C. Saunders
Chair, New York State Judicial Institute on Professionalism in the Law

Arthur J. Semetis
President, Arthur J. Semetis, P.C.

Michael A. Simons
Dean, St. John’s Law School

Hon. Madeline Singas
Associate Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Hon. Leslie E. Stein
Director of the Government Law Center, Albany Law School

Edward A. Steinberg
Partner, Leav & Steinberg

Alecia Walters-Hinds
Partner, Lewis Brisbois