Leadership Awards Dinner
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University inaugurated its Distinguished Service Award in 1995 to honor individuals or organizations that have made outstanding to the legal community, the Law School, or the practice of law. In 2021, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law established the first Annual Rising Star Award, recognizing excellence in practice among alumni in the first 15 years after graduation. In 2022, the Haub Impact Award was established to recognize individuals who have made a lasting impact on the Haub Law community.
The Law School's Annual Law Leadership Awards Dinner provides the setting for the presentation of these awards to distinguished members of the legal community. Through sponsorships and a journal produced especially for the event, funds are raised that help to underwrite the Law School's outstanding academic programs, faculty and students.
28th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2023
Distinguished Service Award:
Susan S. Brown ‘97
Co-Founder and Of Counsel, at Glassman & Brown LLP
Anna Marciano Romanella ‘00
VP, Sustainability Zone North America Nestle
General Counsel & Head of Sustainability, Nespresso USA
Haub Impact Award:
John T. O'Connor ‘86
Partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Rising Star Award:
Jonathan Campozano ‘17
Hana Heineken ’10
Najia S. Khalid ‘09
Shamik N. Trivedi ‘08
27th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2022
Distinguished Service Award:
Mayo Bartlett ’92
Principal Attorney, Law Offices of Mayo Bartlett, PLLC
Brian S. Hermann ’91 (Lubin)
Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Inaugural Haub Impact Award:
John C. Lettera ’99
Founder & CEO, RealFi Financial, LLC
Rising Star Award:
Cherie Phoenix-Sharpe ’07
Fatima Silva ’08
Michael Bauscher ’10
Kevin Sylvester ’14
Cayleigh Eckhardt ’15
26th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2021
Distinguished Service Award:
Virginia Wong, Esq. ’93
Partner at Nixon Peabody LLP
Honoring the memory of:
Henry Miller Esq.
Trustee Emeritus and Senior Partner of Clark, Gagliardi and Miller, P.C.,
Honorable Steven I. Milligram, Esq. ’81
NYS Supreme Court Justice
Inaugural Rising Star Award:
Keji Ayorinde, Esq. ’08
Robyn Downing ’17
Caesar Lopez ’12
Christopher Messina, Esq. ’10
Steven Sarno, Esq. ’09
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25th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2020
Louis V. Fasulo, Esq. '83
Director of Advocacy Programs at Haub Law
Partner, Fasulo, Braverman & DiMaggio LLP
Honorable Terry Jane Ruderman, Esq. '80
Justice of the New York State Supreme Court, Ninth Judicial District
Associate Justice, Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, 9th & 10th Judicial Districts
Jerold Ruderman
Senior Counsel at Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker
24th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2019
Christopher B. Fisher, Esq. '94
Managing Partner, Cuddy & Feder LLP
Dennis J. Kenny
Senior Vice President and General Counsel (Retired), Transamerica Leasing, Inc.
23rd Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2018
Jeffrey J. Delaney, Esq. ’92
Partner, Pillsbury
Anthony J. Enea, Esq. ’85
Partner, Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano, LLP
22nd Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2017
The Honorable Janet DiFiore
Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals and of the State of New York
Jay C. Carlisle II
Professor Emeritus
21st Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2016
Chris Carnicelli, Esq. ‘93
Chairman and CEO, US Branch, Generali
Peter S. Goodman, Esq. ‘86
Principal, McKool Smith
20th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2015
The Honorable Jonathan Lippman
Chief Judge of the State of New York
Andrew Tung, Esq. '95
Partner, Divney Tung Schwalbe, LLP
19th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2014
Bradford W. Hildebrandt
Hildebrandt Consulting
Judith E. Turkel, Esq. ‘81
Turkel Forman LLP
18th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2012
Anthony G. Piscionere, Esq. ‘80
Piscionere & Nemarow
John C. Lettera, Esq. ‘99
Lettera/Mosiello LLP
17th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2011
David Anthony Pope
Generoso Pope Foundation
Robert S. Tucker, Esq. ‘96
T&M Protection Resources
16th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2010
Liliane A. Haub
Elizabeth Haub Foundation USA
Christian W.E. Haub
Emil Capital Partners, LLC
Thomas H. Welby, Esq. ‘85
Welby, Brady & Greenblatt, LLP
15th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2009
Delores Scott Brathwaite, Esq. ‘84
Greenburgh Town Court
Thomas J. Lalla, Esq.
John J. Rapisardi, Esq. ‘82
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
14th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2008
Vernon J. Brown, Esq. ‘96
V. Brown & Company, Inc.
Robert B. Marcus, Esq. ‘79
Robert Marcus Law
Steven J. Schwartzapfel, Esq. ‘80
Schwartzapfel Partners
13th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2007
Noah J. Hanft, Esq.
Mastercard
Professor Emeritus Janet A. Johnson
Pace Law School
12th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2006
Philip M. Halpern, Esq. ‘80
Collier Halpern Newberg Nolletti & Bock LLP
Judith Ann Lockhart, Esq. ‘85
Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP
Donald J. Rosenberg, Esq.
Qualcomm Incorporated
11th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2005
David Boies, Esq.
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Kathleen Donelli, Esq. ‘85
McCarthy Fingar LLP
John T. O’Connor, Esq. ‘86
Hunton & Williams LLP
10th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2004
David R. Andrews, Esq.
Alfred E. Donnellan, Esq. ‘81
DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiedekehr LLP
9th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2003
V. Gerard Comizio, Esq. ‘80
Paul Hastings LLP
Patrick V. Delorio, Esq.
The Delorio Law Firm
8th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2002
Michael C. Finnegan, Esq. ‘87
Continental Organics
The Honorable Sondra Miller
McCarthy Fingar, LLP
7th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2001
The Honorable Terry Jane Ruderman ‘80
White Plains Court of Claims
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Esq. ‘87
Pace Law School
6th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 2000
John P. Cahill, Esq. ‘85
The Pataki-Cahill Group
Lucille A. Fontana, Esq. ‘81
Clark Gagliardi & Miller P.C.
5th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 1999
Marvin D. Genzer, Esq. ‘81
William F. Plunkett, Jr., Esq.
Plunkett
4th Annual Law Leadership Awards, 1998
William F. Harrington, Esq.
Dean Emeritus Richard L. Ottinger
Pace Law School
3rd Annual Law Leadership Awards, 1997
Henry G. Miller, Esq.
Clark, Gagliardi & Miller, P.C.
2nd Annual Law Leadership Awards, 1996
William M. Mooney, Jr.
Westchester County Association
Pace Law School Class of 1979
Inaugural Law Leadership Awards, 1995
Cuddy & Feder
Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker