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Patricia Rodriguez
Vice-President, Fourth District
ALBANY – Schenectady attorney Patricia Rodriguez (Law Office of Patricia L.R.
Rodriguez), has been elected to the Executive Committee of the New York
State Bar Association (NYSBA).
The 26-member Executive Committee
oversees the management and administration of the state bar within
policies determined by its governing body, the House of
Delegates.
Rodriguez received her undergraduate
degree from Douglass College of Rutgers University in 1979, and earned
her law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in
1985.
Rodriguez concentrates her practice
within Schenectady, Albany and Montgomery Counties in
the areas of family law and criminal law including: custody, neglect,
visitation, abuse and family offense.
Active in the State Bar’s Family
Law Section, she is also a member of the Association’s House of
Delegates, the Committee on Courts of Appellate Jurisdiction and the
Special Committee to Study the Bar Exam and Other Means of Measuring
Lawyers.
Prior to entering into private
practice, Rodriguez served as Assistant Counsel to the New York State
Education Department. Her past experience includes working as General
Counsel for the New York State Consumer Protection Board and Associate
Counsel for the New York State Assembly.
Rodriguez is the Vice
President of To Life!, a board member of the Capital District Black and
Hispanic Bar Association Board, and a member of the Capital District
Women’s Bar Association. She has held
the Vice Presidency of the Law Order and Justice Center, and served on
the Environmental Advocates Board of Directors. She was admitted to the United States District Court in
2000.
The New York State Bar Association,
with more than 72,000 members, is the official organization of lawyers
in New York and the
largest voluntary state bar association in the nation.
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