Lippman selects Brooklyn judges for commercial division
New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman announced the names of the members of the new Commercial Division Advisory Council. Two Brooklyn judges, Ann Pfau and Thomas Dickerson, were named to the council.
Pfau, former chief administrative judge for the Office of Court Administration, is presently the statewide coordinating judge for medical malpractice matters. A graduate of Brooklyn Law School, Pfau has sat on the bench, in varying capacities, for 16 years.
Dickerson sits on the Appellate Division bench in the Brooklyn Heights courthouse on Monroe Place. Beginning his judicial career in Yonkers, Dickerson, a graduate of Cornell Law School, was appointed to serve as an Appellate Division Associate Justice in 2006.