Elisabeth Haub School of Law Honors

Distinguished Service Award Honoree

SuSan S. Brown, JD ’87 Co-Founder, Of Counsel Glassman & Brown, LLP

SUSAN S. BROWN is a co-founding member of the law firm of Glassman & Brown, LLP; she is now Of Counsel to the firm practicing primarily in the areas of Guardianship, Elder Law and Estates and Trusts. Ms. Brown was the first woman admitted to the partnership of the McCarthy Fingar, LLP law firm where she started her legal career. Ms. Brown graduated from Bucknell University in 1978 and received her law degree from Pace University School of Law in 1987, where she was a member and editor of the Pace Law Review. She is admitted to practice law in New York and Connecticut. She is the immediate past President of the Board of the Westchester Women’s Bar Association Foundation. She has served as a Vice President of the Westchester Women’s Bar Association and as co-chair of its Estates and Trusts Committee. Ms. Brown taught courses in estate administration, will drafting, advanced estate planning, retirement asset planning, contested guardianships, and elder law ethics for the New York State, Westchester County and Westchester Women’s Bar Associations and for Pace University School of Law Continuing Legal Education. She has served as a presenter at Senior Law Day sponsored by Westchester County and she lectured on the topic of US-international estate taxation before the Association of American Wives of Europeans in Paris, France.

Ms. Brown serves on the Zoning Board of Appeals of the City of Rye, NY. She attempts to speak conversational French. Ms. Brown has been happily married to J. Frank Brown for over 40 years; she is the proud mother of Christopher and Sarah, the grateful mother-in-law of Bernadette and Shay; and she is completely over-the-moon crazy about her four grandchildren: Philip, Nathaniel, Audrey and Julian.