The Judicial Section of the New York State Bar Association and its affiliate, The Council of Judicial Associations, is unique. The section’s members hail from every jurisdiction in the state and preside in every court—Federal, Supreme, Surrogates, Court of Claims, County, Family, District, City, NYC Civil and Criminal, Housing and Town and Village. The council is comprised of leaders from each of these courts’ associations and representatives from many minority Bar Associations. The council meets four times each year to conduct business important to the Judiciary, and our Annual Meeting takes place on the Friday afternoon of State Bar Week in conjunction with the section’s sumptuous annual awards’ luncheon.
The mission of the New York State Bar Association’s Judicial Section is to promote dialogue, interaction, collaboration and collegiality among the judges and justices in New York state and to improve and promote the efficiency, effectiveness, diversity and standing of the judiciary. Our primary concern is the administration of justice. Although the members of the council do not always see eye-to-eye on every issue, we are united in our desire to ensure that the citizens of our state are served to the best of our individual and collective abilities. We are equally united in our desire to achieve statewide diversity both on the bench and in the legal profession.
