Presents
The First Annual Thomas E. Dewey Medal Presentation
When: Tuesday, November
29, 2005, 6:00
p.m.
Where: House of the Association, 42
West 44th Street
The New York City
Bar Association will host its first Thomas
E. Dewey Medal Presentation Ceremony on Tuesday,
November 29 th at 6 p.m. The award is given
every year to an outstanding assistant district
attorney in each of the city’s
District Attorney’s offices. The inaugural
medal winners are:
Bronx County --
MICHAEL H. COOPER
Kings County --
ANNA-SIGGA NICOLAZZI
New York
County -- LeROY FRAZER, JR.
Queens County --
SCOTT E. KESSLER
Richmond County --
TIMOTHY J. KOLLER
Moderator:
SETH C. FARBER, Chair, Dewey
Medal Committee
Keynote Speech:
DANIEL R. ALONSO, Chair, Committee
on Criminal Advocacy
Presenter:
BETTINA B. PLEVAN, President,
New York City Bar
A reception will follow the presentation.
Members of the Association, their guests and
all other persons are invited to attend. No
fee or reservation is required.
The Dewey Medal is patterned after the existing
Henry L. Stimson Medal, awarded annually to outstanding
Assistant U.S. Attorneys in the two federal districts
in New York City .
Among prosecutors in New York County , Thomas
E. Dewey is remembered as having ushered
in the era in which the District Attorney’s
office has been staffed by professional prosecutors
chosen on merit rather than through political
patronage. Dewey first came to the public’s
attention as a prosecutor in the 1930s, instituting
successful criminal proceedings against gangsters,
bootleggers and organized crime figures of
the day. By 1937, Dewey was elected District
Attorney of New York County, where he served
one term before resigning to run for governor.
