Brooklyn Bar Association gives out new Trailblazer Award to past female presidents
The Brooklyn Bar Association (BBA) Foundation held its annual dinner on Monday at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge Hotel, where it honored a pair of judges and gave out its new trailblazer award to all of its past female presidents.
Current President Aimee Richter, who is BBA’s ninth female president, was the one who created the Vivian H. Agress Trailblazer Award and named it after the organization’s first female president. The inaugural recipients were Hon. Miriam Cyrulnik, Lynn R. Terrelonge, Hon. Nancy T. Sunshine, Rose Ann C. Branda, Diana J. Szochet, Andrea E. Bonina and Rebecca Rose Woodland.
The two judges who were honored were Hon. Rachel Adams and Hon. Bernard Graham, both justices of the Supreme Court, Kings County.