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Sharon Stern Gerstman
Vice-President, 8th District
Sharon Stern Gerstman of Buffalo (NYS Supreme Court) has been elected
to serve as Vice-President for the 8th Judicial District of the New York
State Bar Association’s Executive Committee.
Gerstman received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and
earned her law degree from the University of Pittsburgh Law School. She
received an LL.M. from Yale Law School.
Gerstman is the principal law clerk and matrimonial referee for the
New York Supreme Court, Eighth Judicial District. She is an adjunct
professor at the University of Buffalo Law School.
Gerstman will serve her third term on the Association’s Executive
Committee, where she was a Member-at-Large from 1999-2002 and an Eighth
District Vice-President from 2003-2008. She has been a member of the
House of Delegates since 1996. She served as chair of the Special
Committees on Lawyer Advertising and Lawyer Referral Service Regulation,
and Civil Practice Law and Rules. She previously co-chaired the Task
Force on E-Filing and the Special Committee on Lawyer Advertising. She
is a member of the Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section, a Life
Fellow and a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Bar
Foundation. She previously was a member of the Family Law Section, the
Finance Committee, the Nominating Committee, the Committee on Public
Relations, the Committee on Citizenship Education, and the Special
Committee on Association Meetings and Multi-Jurisdictional Practice.
A frequent lecturer and author, Gerstman is a member of the American
Bar Association’s House of Delegates and its Technology &
Communications Committee. She previously served on the ABA’s Board
of Governors. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She is a
past president of the Erie County Bar Foundation and the Women Lawyers
of Western New York, and an active member of the Bar Association of Erie
County.
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