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Justice Chambers to moderate event where Eric Holder will be honored

April 9, 2018 By Rob Abruzzese, Legal Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Justice Cheryl Chambers, of the Appellate Division, Second Department in Brooklyn, will moderate a CLE during a NYSBA meeting where former AG Eric Holder will be honored. Eagle file photo by Mario Belluomo
Justice Cheryl Chambers, of the Appellate Division, Second Department in Brooklyn, will moderate a CLE during a NYSBA meeting where former AG Eric Holder will be honored. Eagle file photo by Mario Belluomo
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Justice Cheryl Chambers, of the Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, will preside over a New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) diversity event where former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will be honored.

Holder will be given the 2018 Hon. George Bundy Smith Pioneer Award by the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the NYSBA at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10 at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan.

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The award was named after former Court of Appeals Associate Judge George Bundy Smith, who was the first ever to receive the award.

Holder, who was nominated by President Barack Obama, served as attorney general for six years. He was replaced in 2015 by Loretta Lynch after his resignation.

The event will also feature a continuing legal education seminar titled, “Strengthening the Rule of Law by Fighting Discrimination.”

That program, which will focus on how attorneys can fight discrimination and improve adherence to the law, will feature Chambers as the moderator.

The other panelists will include retired Justice Fern Fisher, who is special assistant to the dean for social justice and public interest initiatives at Hofstra University, Maurice A. Deane School of Law; professor Angela J. Davis, from American University Washington College of Law; Lillian Moy, executive director at Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York; and Dr. Alejandro Ponce, chief research officer at the World Justice Project.

 


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