Law Leadership Awards Dinner
Annual Lectures and Awards

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

Previous Awards

  • 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