Newark’s Sills Cummis & Gross has awarded its 2014 Charles J. Walsh Scholarship to Joyce Lee, a first-year student at Rutgers School of Law–Newark. In 2006, Sills Cummis established the Scholarship Fund on behalf of the family, friends and colleagues of the late Judge Charles J. Walsh. Prior to his appointment to the Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen County, Walsh was a valued member of the Firm for 17 years. Lee received her Pharm.D., cum laude, from the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University in 2010, before embarking on law school. She is looking to focus her practice of law in the life sciences industry. The Charles J. Walsh Scholar Fund will provide financial and other assistance to Lee in the form of scholarship support, summer internship stipends and mentorship. Shown, from left: On June 23 at the Sills Cummis offices in Newark, attorney Margaret Black, Joyce Lee and Sills Cummis partner James Hirschhorn.

Judge Goodman Swears in Women Lawyers Association Board

Approximately 60 executive board members and committee chair people gathered at The Pleasantdale Chateau in West Orange on July 9 for the annual New Jersey Women Lawyers Association board installation dinner. Past President Kirsten Scheurer Branigan offered the opening remarks, recounting the revitalization of the NJWLA nearly a decade ago. She was followed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Lois Goodman, who swore in the members of the board. President Randi Kochman also addressed attendees about her vision for the upcoming year. Shown, from left: Judge Goodman; Co-Chief Diversity Officer Carmen Garcia; Co-Secretary Laurie Poulos; Past President Branigan; Co-Chief Operating Officer Susan Kleiner; Vice President Loren Pierce; Co-General Counsel Teddy McCormick and Susan O’Connor; Co-Chief Operating Officer Linda Harvey; Co-Chief Diversity Officers Eboneé Hamilton Lewis and Renee Rubino. Second Row: Nominations Director Galit Kierkut; President Kochman; President-Elect Jessica Stein Allen; Past President Wendy Johnson Lario; and Co-Secretary Sandra Moran. (Not Pictured: Chief Financial Officer Annmarie Simeone and Immediate Past President Suzanne Cerra.)

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