CAMPUSEVENTS Third Dept. Holds Court on Campus, Dedicates Plaque to Justice Cardona Before the Third Department of the Supreme Court of New York began their oral arguments on March 19 during their annual campus event, they dedicated a plaque for the Dean Alexander Moot Court Room to honor the late Presiding Justice Anthony Cardona ’70. The plaque recognizes the new naming of the school’s moot court program: Anthony V. Cardona ’70 Moot Court Program. The justices present that day were, pictured from left, Hon. John Egan Jr. ’80, Hon. Robert Rose ’68, Presiding Justice Karen Peters and Hon. Leslie Stein ’81. Professor Michael Hutter argued his case that day before the court. Alumna Karla Williams Buettner ’02, who argued a separate case, told the court she remembered being in that same spot “11 years ago for a Gabrielli Moot Court Competition.” Other alumni who argued before the court that day included Jeffery D. Honeywell ’83, Kevin A. Luibrand ’87, Michael Pascazi ’05 and Pangiota K. Hyde ’08.
Karla Williams Buettner ’02
Professor Hutter
Women Judges Discuss Path to—and Life on—the Bench A panel of women judges from different levels of the judiciary led a roundtable discussion on gender and the bench after exploring the findings from the Center for Women and Government’s 2012 report on the status of women in state and federal courts in New York State. Participating judges included: Presiding Justice Karen Peters and Justice Leslie Stein ’81, both from the Appellate Division, Third Department; Justice Ann Crowell ’92, Supreme Court, Fourth Judicial District; Judge Christine Clark ’96, Schenectady County Family Court Judge; Judge Helena Heath-Roland, Albany City Court Judge; Dina Refki, Executive Director, Center for Women in Government and Civil Society, moderated. Justice Leslie Stein ’81 6
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Presiding Justice Karen Peters