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Mel Narol Excellence in Diversity Award

Commemorating Mel Narol’s commitment to the work of and enthusiastic support of the Task Force on Diversity, the NJSBA Diversity Committee’s award is presented to those members of the association, as well as organizations, groups or entities, that have spearheaded inclusion and made strides for women and diverse attorneys.

Past Recipients -- 
2022 - Garden State Bar Association
2021 - Evelyn Padin
2020 - Lora Fong
2019 - Assemblywoman Annette Quijano
2018 - Thomas H. Prol
2017 - Miles S. Winder III
2016 - Julien X. Neals / Evan Wolfson
2015 – Saul A. Wolfe
2014 – Hon. Alberto Rivas
2013 – Hon. Esther Salas
2012 – Karol Corbin Walker
2011 – Paulette Brown / Hon. Shirley Tolentino
2010 – Association of Black Women Lawyers of New Jersey, Inc.
2009 – Hon. Anne E. Thompson
2008 – Raymond M. Brown
2007 – Acting Dean Ronald K. Chen
2006 – Zulima V. Farber
2005—Hon. Joseph Rodriguez
2004—Rutgers Law School—Minority Students Program
2003—Hon. James Coleman and posthumously to Mel Narol
2002—Stanley Van Ness
2001—Raymond M. Brown
2000—Hon. Marie Garibaldi
1999—Cynthia M. Jacob and Karol Corbin Walker

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OUR COMMITTEE

Co-Chairs
Valerie A. Jackson
Diversity Officer & Legal Liaison
Division of Administration
Department of the Treasury
50 West State Street – 2nd Floor
PO Box 211
Trenton, NJ 08625
609-292-0555
  
Albertina Webb
Hill Wallack LLP
2 Bridge Avenue
Suite 211
Red Bank, NJ 07701
732-852-7550

Punam P. Alam
Janice Arellano
Jeffrey Bernstein
Lisa R. Burke
Dean L. Burrell
Joanne L. Butler
Faudia Clemenza
Crystal L. Cochren
Melinda Colon Cox
Monica De Los Rios
Yvette Donaldson
Crystal W. Edwards
Leslie A. Farber
Steven Fernandez
Jeffrey Fiorello
Lora L. Fong
Rohini C. Gandhi
Norberto A. Garcia
Lisette Guzman
Karen Gwynn
Ayesha Krishnan Hamilton
Kisha Hebbon
Christopher Jackson
Leonard V. Jones
Emily A. Kaller
Christopher J. Keating
Roger Lai
Diana-Marie Laventure
James H. Lee
James Lewis V
Joseph L. Linares
Eugenia Lynch
Linda A. Mainenti-Walsh
Rachna Malkana
Brenda Maneri
Carmen Mendiola
Mariel M. Mercado-Guevara
Jessica Merejo
Frank J. Morano
Susan L. Nardone
Gigio K. Ninan
Telge N. Peiris
Samuel J. Perez
NaSheena Porter
Thomas H. Prol
Jeyanthi C. Rajaraman
Josan Robinson
Prema Roddam
William T. Rogers III
Rajeh A. Saadeh
Andrew J. Sarrol
Cheyne R. Scott
Hon. Marcia Silva
Brittany N. Tovar
Corinne L. McCann Trainor
G. Glenn Troublefield
Maria P. Vallejo
Amy Vasquez
Daryl Williams
Brett Yore


OUR MISSION

Promotes participation in bar-related activities by those lawyers and lawyer groups who have not previously participated significantly in such activities, including minorities, women, younger lawyers, government lawyers, in-house counsel, physically-challenged and other similarly situated lawyers or lawyer groups.

The Diversity Committee will continue to nurture diversity through: relations with the specialty bar associations and all Association sections and committees; organizing educational and social programming; monitoring and fostering inclusiveness in the continuing activities, programs and projects of the Association and its related organizations, such as the New Jersey State Bar Foundation, and the like.