W W W. TO U R O L AW. E D U 41 The Hon. Monica Schulman was appointed by New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio to Family Court one day after the mayor’s Committee on the Judiciary hearing held a hearing on her nomination. She is also co-chair of the Children and Law Committee of the Women’s Bar Association. 1998 Dina M. Mastellone was named a 2016 Top 50 Woman Lawyer by New Jersey Super Lawyers and has also been recognized as a Super Lawyer in the category of Employment Litigation: Defense since 2015. Dina was also elected Chair of the Women in the Profession Section (WIPS) of the New Jersey Bar Association in May 2016 after previously serving as the Chair-Elect, Vice Chair, Secretary and Trustee for WIPS. Dina is the Chair of Genova Burns LLC’s Human Resource Training & Audit Programs Practice Group and a Partner in the Employment Litigation Practice Group in the firm’s Newark and Red Bank, NJ offices. She is also on the Executive Committee of the NJSBA’s Labor & Employment Law Section, a Board Member of the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association and an Instructor for the New Jersey Coalition of Automotive Retailers (NJ CAR) Training Academy. Kelly A. Magnuson has joined Tully Rinckey PLLC as a Senior Counsel. Kelly concentrates her practice on labor and employment law as well as medical malpractice and dental malpractice. She regularly handles cases involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and unpaid minimum wages and overtime. Her practice takes her before local, state and federal courts, in addition to state and federal administrative agencies, such as the New York State Division of Human Rights, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and National Labor Relations Board. She joined Tully Rinckey PLLC after a long and successful career as a trial attorney downstate. Andrew P. Nitkewicz is a Partner in the Trusts and Estates Department of Cullen and Dykman LLP in Garden City. Andrew’s practice focuses on complex estate litigation as well as commercial litigation and medical litigation. Andrew also serves as general counsel to physicians, oral surgeons, dentists, nurses and other healthcare providers in matters relating to litigation and compliance. Prior to moving his practice to Cullen and Dykman LLP, Andrew was a name partner at Avelino Nitkewicz LLP for more than 15 years. Andrew lives in Rockville Centre with his wife Danielle and daughter Maggie. 1999 Erica Edwards-O’Neal was selected as one of the 11th Assembly District’s 2016 Women of Distinction. The 11th Assembly District is honoring women in their district who have made a significant difference in the lives of others. Eric R. Morgenweck recently became General Counsel to AKRF, Inc. AKRF, Inc. is a 350 person Environmental, Planning and Engineering firm with offices in NYC, Long Island, White Plains, NJ, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston. Laurette Mulry was appointed Attorney in Charge of the Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County. Esther Schonfeld, a preeminent matrimonial attorney and founding partner of Schonfeld and Goldring, LLP co-chaired an event to benefit the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA) in May 2016. The ORA seeks to eliminate abuse from the Jewish divorce process, working within the parameters of Jewish law and civil law to advocate for the timely and unconditional issuance of a get. Ralph Winnie, Jr. was interviewed by Wall Street Multimedia at the NASDAQ in June; was interviewed in the Suptnik News discussing Vietnam and was recently announced as part of the Hawaii Delegation (at-large alternate) to the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. 2001 Ralph Branciforte, an Associate with Sahn Ward Coschignano, PLLC in Uniondale, NY, was named Public Interest Attorney of the Year by Touro Law Center. Ralph also served as an Assistant District Attorney in a pro bono capacity for the Nassau County District Attorney and successfully argued an appeal in People v. Valery. Ralph concentrates his practice in the areas of general and commercial litigation and appeals. He is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. This May, Jawan Finley, Esq. (left) and Beverly Benjamin- George (right) were part of the 19-member delegation of the Queens County Women’s Bar Association attending the VI International Conference “Mujer, Genero, Y Derecho” in Havana Cuba. Photo taken in front of the Cuban Bar Association. Hon. Lisa S. Headley was elected as a NY Civil Court Judge in January 2016. 2003 Marc Alessi joined the law firm of Campolo Middleton McCormick LLP and was also named as the Executive Director of the Business Incubator Association of New York State. In his position with the BIA/ NYS, Marc is responsible for promoting and networking, knowledge sharing, and CL A S S N OTE S