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Celebrate with the Stars

 

About the Event

Join us for a night to remember as we celebrate with the stars of our legal community. This annual awards dinner is an evening filled with inspiration, where we honor each year’s impressive awardees, selected for their distinguished achievements as well as attorneys observing the 50th anniversary of their admission to practice in Connecticut.

2025 Celebrate with the Stars

Wednesday, April 9
5:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Aqua Turf Club
556 Mulberry St, Plantsville

This Year's Awardees

Nina Elgo 2025 CWTS Headshot

Henry J. Naruk Judiciary Award
Hon. Nina F. Elgo
Connecticut Appellate Court, Hartford

Denis Caron Headshot

John Eldred Shields Distinguished Professional Service Award
Denis R. Caron
Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co. (Retired), Glastonbury

John Dankosky 2025 CWTS Headshot

Distinguished Public Service Award
John Dankosky
Radio Journalist and Moderator, Winsted

Jennifer L. Herbst 2025 CWTS Heashot

Tapping Reeve Legal Educator Award
Jennifer L. Herbst
Quinnipiac University Schools of Law & Medicine, North Haven

Sally Zanger 2025 CWTS Headshot

Charles J. Parker Legal Services Award
Sally Zanger
Connecticut Legal Rights Project, Middletown

Rosendo Garza 2025 CWTS Headshot

Citizen of the Law Award
Rosendo Garza, Jr.
Day Pitney LLP, Hartford

Alison Toumekian 2025 CWTS Headshot

Young Lawyers Section Vanguard Award
Alison J. Toumekian
Zeldes Needle & Cooper PC, Bridgeport

The Honorable Anthony V. DeMayo Pro Bono Award

Paul Kelly 2025 cwts Headshot

Paul T. Kelly
FrontLaw PLLC, Wethersfield

Jeffrey L. Meyers Headshot - 2025 CWTS

Jeffrey L. Meyers
Law Office of Jeffrey L. Meyers, Norwalk

Attorneys Observing the 50th Anniversary of Their Admission to Practice in Connecticut

Douglas Ackerman

Melinda Anne Agsten

Stephen O. Allaire

James M.. Altman

Gregory W. Altschuh

Lois B. Anderson

Andrew Apicella

James Armentano

Stephen M. Bacon

James D. Bartolini

Donald R. Beebe

Sharon Arlene Blinkoff

Barry W. Botticello

Richard W. Bowerman

Leonard B. Bren

Roger Brewer

James J. Brooks

Allen David Brufsky

Charles Busek

Thomas R.. Candrick, Jr.

Michael John Canning

Christopher B. Carveth

Max Stuart Case

George Foster Catlett

Paul F. Chinigo

Frank L. Cirillo

Hon. Patrick J. Clifford

George M. Cohan

Linda Avseev Cohn

Gary D. Constant

John B. Conway

Wayne P. Cooper

George M. Coppolo

John S. Coulton

Eugene C. Cushman

Jonathan Tyrrell Dawson

Sperry A. Decew

John Del Negro

John Thomas Delnegro

Robert J. Delvin, Jr.

Doreen Dennis

Alfred P. Denowitz

John B. Devine

Edward Stanley Domnarski, Jr.

John J. Dropick

J.M. Dudra

Edward J. Duffy, Jr.

Catherine Duggan

John H. Durham

Robert P. Dutcher

James F. Early

Stephen C. Embry

Robert B. Fawber

Robert H. Felder

William J. Fitzpatrick III

Leslie J. Fodeman

Karl A. Fransson

Marc B. Friedman

Diana Garfield

Andrew E. Garson

Scott Garver

Wayne Christopher Gerlt

Peter S. Gianacoplos

Peter E. Gillespie

John B. Glendon

Thadd A. Gnocchi

Joanne Abrams Goldberg

Carl Goldfield

Barrie Goldstein

Robert James Gorman

Robert T. Gradoville

Mark O. Grater

Edward Charles Graziant

Daniel Green

William Vincent Grickis Jr

Paul M. Guernsey

Thomas A. Gugliotti

Kevin J. Gumpper

Robert Bartley Halloran

John L. Hammond

Theodore A.. Harris

John Edward Harrison
James E. Hartley, Jr.

John I. Haymond

Susan Lee Heintz

Harry B. Heller

Peter F. Helwig

Charles W. Henry

Stephen R. Herbert

Pamela R. Hershinson

Harry B. Hirsch

Charles L. Howard

Jay B. Hunt

Jerald P. Hurwitz

Fred Hyde

Dwight Alan Johnson

Mark K. Jones

Richard M Kaplan

Thomas J. Kehoe

Lawrence J. Kendzior

Richard J. Kenny

Richard G. Kent

Dennis L Kern

Gerald M. Klein

William C Kollman II

Carolyn W. Kone

Edward T. Krumeich

Linda A. Kucej

Christopher A. Kule

John D. Labelle, Jr.

Linda Lager

Richard S. Land

Michael N. LaVelle

Richard P. Lawlor

John H. Lawrence, Jr.

James H. Lee

Douglas C. Leonard

Francis A. Leone

Edward N. Lerner

Robert M. Levin

Chester Waterman Lewis

Joel H. Lichtenstein

Jack Stuart Lipson

William Liska

Gary Frank Lorusso

Harold M. Lubin

James D. Lyons

Michael Macris

John Ronalds Mallin

Robert J. Malone

Bruce Hartling Mann

Randall C. Mathieson

Frank May

Stephen D. Mccann

William E. Mccoy

Sharlene Mcevoy

Kevin M. Mcgovern

Robert Joseph McKay

Harvey Melzer

Arnold I. Menchel

Richard E. Minton

David Robert Morris

Francis H. Morrison III

Alfred F. Morrocco Jr

Nicholas Edward Munger

John Raymond Murphy

Gerald M. Noonan

Joseph A. O'Brien

Kevin M. O'Brien

George E. O'Brien, Jr.

Jeffrey Olgin

Steven M. Olivo

Ronald Osach

Anthony Palermino

Richard Alan Pearson

Michael A. Peck

Michael Ruben Peck

Harry E. Peden III

Charles A. Pillsbury

Jeffrey C. Pingpank

Gerald J. Porricelli

Paul E. Potanka

Dean F. Radke
John W. Rafal

John Boyle Rearden, Jr.

Judith Resnik
George W. Ripley III
Richard N. Riscassi
David Rivers
Williams Otis Rockwood, Jr.
Burton S. Rosenberg
Ronald S. Rosenstein
Stanley A. Rothstein
Thomas Alan Rouse
James R. Roy
Allan Rubenstein
Keith A. Rubenstein
Ralph Anthony Russo
Thomas W. Sacco
John Sanders
Harry N. Sanderson, Jr.
Frank G. Santy
James Joseph Scalise
Howard B. Schiller
Jane Smith Scholl
Samuel L. Schrager
Joel S. Schwitzer
Frazier Scott
Sharon Serow
David W. Sessions
James M. Shaker
James E. Sheehy
Hon. Michael R. Sheldon
Douglas Knox Simpson
Gary P. Sklaver
Eugene A. Skowronski
Gerard A. Smyth
Ellen L. Sostman
Richard Thomas Space
Kenneth J. Speyer
John P. Spilka
Gregory G. St. John
Gary Starr
Michael Steibel
Judith Stein
Jeffrey S. Stephens
Harold Burr Stevens III
Donald L. Stone
John F. Strother
William J. Sweeney
Raymond L. Sweigart
Mark Swerdloff
Thomas P. Tabellione
Allan Taylor
John P. Tesei
Barry L. Thompson
William F. Tynan
Thomas R. Ventre
Hon. Christine S. Vertefeuille
E. Allen Vitello
Alan G. Vogel
John A. Wall
Elliot R. Warren
Jeremy N. Weingast
Arthur C.. Weinshank
Galen Wells
Jean L. Welty
Michael J. Whelton
Christine M. Whitehead
John C. Wirzbicki
Michael A.. Wolak III
R. Bradley Wolfe
John J. Woodcock III
Joseph Michael Wooters
James Wu
John M. Wyzik
Peter J. Zagorsky
John Zandy
Edward A. Zelinsky
Eddi Z. Zyko

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