The Appellate Division, First Department’s Bernard Botein Awards for “outstanding contributions to the administration of justice” were presented Monday at the New York City Bar.
On hand for the event, from left, are Presiding Justice Luis A. Gonzalez; honorees: Eugene Preudhomme, law library director; Daniel Weitz, deputy director, division of professional and court services, OCA; Valerie Qualls, confidential secretary, Manhattan Supreme Court; Jerry Rodriguez, case management coordinator, Bronx Supreme Court, Civil Term; William Kalish, deputy chief clerk, Bronx Supreme Court, Criminal Division; Peter Tyrrell, associate court clerk, Manhattan Criminal Court; and city bar president Samuel W. Seymour, a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell.