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

Co-Chairs

Saad Admani
Punam P. Alam
Janice Arellano
Bria Beaufort
Jeffrey Bernstein
Carlos M. Bollar
Dean L. Burrell
Yomara Castro
Crystal L. Cochren
Melinda Colon Cox
Craig L. Dashiell
Monica De Los Rios
Brandon DeJesus
Yvette Donaldson-Brown
Leslie A. Farber
Steven Fernandez
Jeffrey Fiorello
Norberto A. Garcia
Karen Gwynn
Faudia A. Hameed Clemenza
Ayesha Krishnan Hamilton
Robert N. Holup
Katrina M. Homel
Christopher L. Jackson
Lauren B. Jones
Emily A. Kaller
Galit Kierkut
Diana-Marie Laventure
Joseph H. Lemkin
Joseph L. Linares
Eugenia Lynch
Linda A. Mainenti Walsh
Rachna Malkana
Brenda Román Maneri
Corinne McCann Trainor
Mariel M. Mercado-Guevara
Susan L. Nardone
Roshni Patel
NaSheena Porter Poznansky
Josan Robinson
Prema L. Roddam
Cheyne R. Scott
Kristin D. Sostowski
G. Glennon Troublefield
Maria P. Vallejo
Amy Vasquez
Daryl Williams
Brett E. Yore

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.