Naomi Weinstein, Lisa White-Tingling, Shonell Mabry and Main Clemont Mack be part of Appellate Division, First Division Presiding Justice Dianne T. Renwick with a bust of Bernard Botein on the Bernard Botein Medal awards ceremony on the New York Bar Affiliation on March 30, 2026. The medals are awarded yearly to courtroom personnel for excellent contributions to the administration of the courts. Photograph by Jefferson Siegel for the Workplace of Courtroom Administration.
Photograph by Jefferson Siegel for the Workplace of Courtroom Administration.
Bernard Botein — an iconic New York choose who served because the presiding justice for the Manhattan-based Appellate Division, First Division, throughout the center of the twentieth century — made the advance of the authorized system’s interactions with the underprivileged his trigger célèbre.
Edwina Richardson, the deputy chief administrative choose for the New York courtroom system; Norman St. George, the courtroom system’s first deputy chief administrative choose; and Shahabuddeen A. Ally, administrative choose for New York Metropolis civil courts, on the Bernard Botein Medal awards ceremony on the New York Bar Affiliation on Monday, March 30, 2026. The medals are awarded yearly to courtroom personnel for excellent contributions to the administration of the courts. Photograph by Jefferson Siegel for the Workplace of Courtroom Administration.Photograph by Jefferson Siegel for the Workplace of Courtroom Administration
In his tenure, Botein led the struggle for reorganization of New York’s famously byzantine courtroom construction that led to centralization underneath the management of the Administrative Board of the Judicial Convention — all in an effort to stitch collectively what he known as the Empire State’s “notorious islands of judicial power.”
Tamiko Amaker, the deputy chief administrative choose for administration help for the New York courtroom system, left; and Courtroom Officer Main Clemont Mack on March 30, 2026 on the annual Bernard Botein Awards, held on the New York Metropolis Bar Affiliation headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. Photograph by Josh Schneps.
Every year, the courtroom system honors the nonjudicial employees — clerks, courtroom reporters and public security officers — who’re important for preserving the wheels of justice spinning.
The viewers on the Bernard Botein Medal awards ceremony on the New York Bar Affiliation on Monday, March 30, 2026. The medals are awarded yearly to courtroom personnel for excellent contributions to the administration of the courts. Photograph by Jefferson Siegel for the Workplace of Courtroom Administration.Photograph by Jefferson Siegel for the Workplace of Courtroom Administration
This yr, an award bearing Botein’s visage and namesake had been offered to:
Shonell Mabry, principal courtroom reporter, Bronx Supreme Courtroom, Prison Time period
Main Clemont Mack, commanding officer, Bronx Prison Courtroom
Naomi Weinstein, principal legal professional, Psychological Hygiene Authorized Service, Appellate Division, First Division
Lisa White-Tingling, first deputy chief clerk, Manhattan Supreme Courtroom, Prison Time period
Appellate Division, First Division Presiding Justice Dianne Renwick offered awards to the honorees at an occasion on March 30 hosted on the New York Metropolis Bar Affiliation in Midtown Manhattan.
Appellate Division, First Division Presiding Justice Dianne Renwick speaks at March 30, 2026 on the annual Bernard Botein Awards, held on the New York Metropolis Bar Affiliation headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. Photograph by Josh Schneps.
