It was a great personal honor for me to have been sworn in as the newest President of the New York State Magistrates Association at our annual conference in Niagara Falls on September 27, 2011. I hope that each of you that had the chance to join us found this conference to be informative and helpful on a professional basis. I also hope that, on a personal level, it gave you a chance to meet and talk with Judges from throughout New York State who share our unique positions of public service.
To all those who were not able to be with us at our annual conference this year, I would hope to see you in Syracuse in 2012, or Lake Placid in 2013. In the meantime, our State organization continues to work at advancing your interests on a daily basis. Many of the issues we deal with will continue to be discussed in our magazine, The Magistrate, or posted on this website. I am actively engaged in making sure that each of these devices remains relevant to your interests and uses available technology.
A number of our Board members are already looking into ways to communicate with you better and allow you to access information in a format which is convenient to your needs and compatible with your computer skills.
To all the Justices and Court Clerks visiting this webpage, I wanted to also say that each of you deserves to be acknowledged for all your hard work and dedication to the betterment of your communities. To my mind, each of you epitomize the best attributes of local , responsive and responsible public service.
I would also like to thank the Presidents of our various County Magistrates Associations throughout New York for all their good work, since it is our network of County organizations that forms the essential core of our constituency and does the vital work so necessary to the existence of an effective State organization.
Again, I want to thank all the members of the New York State Magistrates Association for their support and good wishes, and I look forward to continuing the fight for your interests in the year ahead.
