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2021 ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SECOND SCHOOL OF LAW C O M M E N C E M E N T Sunday May 16, 2021 3:00 P.M. Commencement Pavilion North Campus AVIVA ABRAMOVSKY Dean Professor of Law S. TODD BROWN Vice Dean for Academic Afairs Professor of Law UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO SCHOOL OF LAW THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK UB Law 20v3:. 5/20/20 8:49 AM Page 2 This page has been intentionally left blank. 22 COMMENCEMENT 2021 2020 Program Selections from Student Address **University Alma Mater Pomp and Circumstance Aldiama Jose Anthony ’21 Anna Fernandez, BFA ‘21 by Sir Edward Elgar Awards and Prizes Closing Declaration Marshall & Mace Bearer S. Todd Brown S. Todd Brown S. Todd Brown Professor and Vice Dean Professor and Vice Dean Professor and Vice Dean for Academic Afairs for Academic Afairs for Academic Afairs Rina M. Hernandez ’21 Student Bar Association President *Recessional Opening Declaration Herald Selections from National Anthem Meredith Kolsky Lewis Pomp and Circumstance Professor and Vice Dean Anna Fernandez, BFA ’21 by Sir Edward Elgar for International and Graduate Programs Greetings *Audience will remain seated during the Conferral of Degrees Processional and Recessional. A. Scott Weber A. Scott Weber ** Please stand if able. Provost and Executive Vice President Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Afairs for Academic Afairs Aviva Abramovsky The University at Bufalo School of Law Dean’s Remarks Dean and Professor of Law is strongly committed to a policy against Aviva Abramovsky discrimination based on race, color, Dean and Professor of Law religious creed, sex, disability, national Hooders origin, age, marital status and sexual Kim Diana Connolly orientation, in accord with the non- Keynote Address Professor and Vice Dean for discrimination policies of the State of New Hon. Shirley Troutman Advocacy and Experiential Education York, the SUNY Board of Trustees, the Associate Justice, New York State University at Bufalo, the Association of Supreme Court Matthew Steilen American Law Schools, the American Bar Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Professor Association, the New York State Rules of Department Professional Conduct. We support eforts to efectuate this policy with respect to all protected individuals. Greetings Anne E. Joynt ’05 UB Law Alumni Association President COMMENCEMENT 2021 3 UB Dental 20v9 for Print:. 5/20/20 8:03 AM Page 4 SUNY Trustee and UB Officials Eunice Ashman Lewin Jeremy M. Jacobs Satish K. Tripathi Member of the State University of New York Chairman of the University President Board of Trustees University at Buffalo Council President and co-founder Jeremy M. Jacobs was An internationally of Impacto Consulting appointed to the UB distinguished researcher Associates, Eunice Ashman Council in 1997; in 1998, and higher education leader, Lewin joined the SUNY then-Gov. George Pataki Satish K. Tripathi, PhD, is the Board of Trustees in named him chairman. University at Bufalo’s 15th February 2010. She helped Jacobs is chairman of president. reinstate the Student Life Delaware North, a global Tripathi, who served as UB’s Committee, on which she is hospitality company with provost from 2004-2011, was co-chair. In that capacity, customers in the United dean of the Bourns College she spearheaded the creation of the Food States, Australia, New Zealand and the of Engineering at the University of California- Insecurity and the Mental Health task forces. United Kingdom. The company’s operations Riverside from 1997-2004. Previously, he spent Lewin serves on the board’s Executive include food and retail at airports and 19 years as professor of computer science at Committee and the committees for academic sports venues, sports facility ownership and the University of Maryland, including seven afairs, communications and external afairs, management, operations of parks and major years as department chair. community colleges, and academic medical tourist attractions, hotel ownership and centers and hospitals. management, gaming operations and fne Tripathi graduated at the top of his class from dining. Banaras Hindu University (BHU). He holds a A former commissioner of the Niagara master’s degree and a doctorate in computer Jacobs owns the Boston Bruins and serves as Frontier Transportation Authority, Lewin science from the University of Toronto, as chairman of the National Hockey League’s was a founding member of the Roswell well as master’s degrees in statistics from Board of Governors. In 2018, he received the Park Alliance and a board member of the the University of Alberta and BHU. A fellow sport’s highest honor when he was inducted Bufalo Urban League and Hispanics United of the IEEE and the American Association into the Hockey Hall of Fame. of Bufalo. She is a member of the Hispanic for the Advancement of Science, he holds Women’s League and the Greater Bufalo An alumnus of UB’s School of Management honorary doctorates from the Indian Institute of Racial Equity Roundtable. Earlier this year, and Harvard Business School’s Advanced Information Technology, Allahabad, and Brock she was named to the Western New York Management Program, Jacobs holds University in Canada. Health Equity Task Force to coordinate honorary doctorates in humane letters from A leader in the national higher education vaccine distribution for the region’s counties. UB, Canisius College, Niagara University and community, Tripathi serves as chair of the Mid- Johnson & Wales University. In 2015, his family American Conference Council of Presidents A retired bilingual social worker for the donated $30 million to advance UB’s medical and on the boards of the NCAA Division I, Bufalo Board of Education, Lewin is a school, which was renamed the Jacobs NCAA Board of Governors and College Football champion for STEM education. School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Playof Board of Managers. A member of Gov. Jacobs has served Western New York for Andrew Cuomo’s Reimagine NY Commission, Born in Guantanamo, Cuba, Lewin more than four decades with his business he has served on the boards of the Association immigrated to the U.S. with her family in expertise and philanthropic leadership, of American Universities, the Association of 1967. She holds a bachelor’s degree in and Delaware North has received multiple Public and Land-Grant Universities and the sociology from Marymount Manhattan awards for social responsibility, community Council for Higher Education Accreditation. In College and master’s degrees in American service and environmental stewardship. 2011, Gov. Cuomo appointed Tripathi inaugural and Puerto Rican studies, and in educational co-chair of the Western New York Regional administration, from UB. A longtime friend and supporter of UB, Economic Development Council, a position he Jacobs has served as chairman, trustee and held until 2017. director of the UB Foundation, chairman of the President’s Board of Visitors and adviser to the School of Management. 4 COMMENCEMENT 2021 20204 UBUB Dental Law 20v3:. 20v9 for5/20/20 Print:. 8:49 5/20/20 AM Page8:03 AM5 Page 5 Special Guest A.A. Scott Scott Weber Weber MichaelAviva Abramovsky E. Cain JosephJosephHon. J. Shirley Zambon, Troutman DDS, PhD ProvostProvost and and Executive Executive Vice Vice President President ViceDean President and Professor for Health of Law Sciences DeanAssociate Justice, New York State Supreme Court forfor Academic Academic Affairs Affairs DeanUniversity of the at Jacobs Buffalo School School of ofMedicine Law SUNYAppellate Distinguished Division, Teaching Fourth JudicialProfessor Department andThe Biomedical State University Sciences of New York AsAs provost provost and and MichaelAviva Abramovsky E. Cain, MD, is the came law Hon. Shirley Troutman is executiveexecutive vice vice president president toschool’s the University 19th permanent at Buffalo dean an associate justice of the forfor academic academic affairs, affairs, inand 2006 the frstfrom woman Washington to hold Appellate Division, Fourth University School of Department and the co-chair A.A. Scott Scott Weber, Weber, PhD, PhD, the position. She is an expert in servesserves as as the the university’s university’s Medicine in St. Louis, where of the Franklin H. Williams insurance law, commercial law, chiefchief academic academic officer, officer, he was director of the Judicial Commission. She responsibleresponsible for for leading leading Cardiovascularregulation of fnancial Division entities and previously served as a trial thethe development development and and Tobiasand legal and ethics, Hortense and she Lewin has judge in New York State implementationimplementation of of the the Professorwritten numerous of Medicine. articles and Supreme Court, assigned to university’suniversity’s academic academic vision. vision. Weber Weber provides provides Cainlegal is treatises, a graduate including of Gettysburg authoring McKinney’s College the Eighth Judicial District, where she handled leadershipleadership across across the the academic academic enterprise enterprise andUniform received Commercial his medical Code formsdegree for from New York. matrimonial and general civil litigation matters. Prior to her election to Supreme Court, Justice includingincluding research, research, scholarship scholarship and and creative creative GeorgeShe is the Washington current editor University of LSN Insurance School Law,of activities;activities; undergraduate, undergraduate, graduate, graduate, Medicine and Health Sciences. He completed Troutman was a County Court Judge where she Legislation, & Policy, and she served as the

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