TRAILBLAZER: Brooklyn Bar Association President David Chidekel presented
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Members of the Brooklyn Bar
Association packed Downtown’s
New York Marriott at
the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday
night for the group’s annual
Foundation Dinner,
which salutes local judges
and their civic contributions
to Kings County, according to
the association’s president.
“Honorees were chosen
because they refl ect different
parts of the Brooklyn legal
community and these people
have done incredible work for
the residents of the borough,”
said David Chidekel.
Jurists including Justice
Sylvia Ash, Justice Matthew
D’Emic, Justice Genine Edwards,
Justice Bernard Graham,
Justice Joanne Quinones,
and Justices Jeffrey and
Nancy Sunshine celebrated
their colleagues along with
such local luminaries as Msgr.
David Cassato, the pastor of
Bensonhurst’s Saint Athanasius
Church, District Attorney
Eric Gonzalez, civil-rights
attorney Sanford Rubenstein,
Democratic Party Boss Frank
Seddio, Schneps Community
News Group President and
Publisher Victoria Schneps-
Yunis, and other movers and
shakers over drinks and dinner
at the festivities.
Justice Quinones received
one of seven Trailblazer
Awards handed out by the
more than century-old organization
at the event, according
to Chidekel, who said the
judge’s commitment to giving
back to members of her community
should be an example
for all.
Other recipients of the
Trailblazer Award included
District Attorney Gonzalez,
Justice Larry Martin, Justice
William Miller, Justice Marsha
Steinhardt, former Brooklyn
Bar Association president
Aimee Richter, and Brooklyn
Supreme Court Chief Clerk
Charles Small.
Boro legal eagles honored at bash
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