MCBA installs officers, honors members

Daily Record Staff//June 23, 2017//

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Jill Cicero, center—with Sharon Sayers and Diane Cicero—was sworn in as president of the Monroe County Bar Association at the annual dinner Thursday. (Bennett Loudon)

The Monroe County Bar Association on Thursday installed new officers, recognized longtime members and honored several award recipients at the organization’s annual dinner at the Hyatt Regency Rochester.

Jon Getz and state Court of Claims Judge Renee Minarik.

About 300 people attended the event where Jill Cicero was sworn in as the organization’s new president, along with the members of the board.

Bar Association Foundation President Harold Kurland also was sworn in with the rest of the Foundation Board.

Steven V. Modica, principal owner of the Modica Law Firm, received the President’s Award for Professionalism.

Former state Supreme Court Justice and current Monroe County Deputy Executive Thomas M. VanStrydonck received the President’s Award.

The Raymond J. Pauly Award went to the Bar’s Young Lawyers Section CLE Committee: Alissa M. Fortuna-Valentine; Katerina M. Kramarchyk; Frances M. Kabat; and Meaghan A. Colligan.

Samuel O. Tilton was presented with the Justin L. Vigdor Senior Award for Service.

Wende J. Knapp received the Emerging Bar Leader Award.

And Jill Cicero accepted the Charles F. Crimi Memorial Award for her husband, Paul D. MacAulay, who died unexpectedly in December.

Amy Schwartz-Wallace and Bryan Hetherington.

Ontario County Court Judges William Kocher and Craig Doran.

Mindy Zoghlin, Robert Brucato and David Tennant.

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