Posthumous award for admired Queens assistant DA
BY BILL PARRY
A long-time fixture at
the Queens district attorney’s
office was honored
posthumously by its leader
last week.
District Attorney Richard
Brown announced that the
Thomas E. Dewey Medal was
awarded to the late Queens
Assistant District Attorney
James W. Evangelou, who
died suddenly in September
after a brief illness.
The Thomas E. Dewey
Medal is awarded each year
by the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York to an
outstanding assistant district
attorney in each of the city’s
five District Attorney offices
and in the Office of the City’s
Special Narcotics Prosecutor.
Bureau Chief Evangelou
was posthumously bestowed
this honor at a ceremony at
the Association’s headquarters
on Dec. 4. The award
presentation was attended by
many of his friends and colleagues
and was accepted on
his behalf by Senior Executive
Assistant District Attorney
James C. Quinn.
“ADA Evangelou was our
long-time chief of my Career
Criminal Major Crimes Bureau,”
Brown said. “He was
a hard-working, dedicated
prosecutor. I am very pleased
this esteemed honor is being
awarded to him.”
Evangelou joined the district
attorney’s office in 1981
as part of the Special Victims
Bureau, where he tried major
felonies and homicides.
He was promoted to Deputy
Chief of the then-newly
formed Career Criminal Major
Crimes Bureau in 1992
and eight years later he was
promoted to Bureau Chief
where he trained scores of
the office’s best assistants,
many of whom became homicide
trial assistants and
managers in the office.
Brown said Evangelou
was not only an experienced
prosecutor and a consummate
professional, but he was
an all-around special person
best known for his humble
and congenial nature and his
dedication to the office.
Evangelou’s contributions
to the office, his unwavering
passion for the law
and his dedication to achieving
justice makes him more
than worthy of this honor,
Brown added.
Among New York City
prosecutors, Dewey is remembered
as having ushered
in the era in which District
Attorneys offices have
been staffed by professional
prosecutors chosen on
merit rather than through
political patronage.
Dewey first came to the
public’s attention as a prosecutor
in the 1930s, instituting
successful criminal proceedings
against gangsters,
bootleggers and organized
crime figures of the day.
By 1937, Dewey was elected
District Attorney for New
York County, where he served
one term before resigning to
run for governor. He would
go on to serve three terms as
New York’s chief executive.
Reach reporter Bill Parry
by e-mail at bparry@cnglocal.
com or by phone at (718)
260–4538.
Former Queens Assistant District Attorney James W. Evangelou
is awarded the prestigious Thomas E. Dewey Medal earlier this
month. Courtesy Queens DA’s offi ce
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