The New York City Bar Association held the 2019 Bernard Botein Awards on March 18. The Botein Medal is awarded annually to non-judicial personnel in the First Judicial Department “for outstanding contributions to the administration of the courts.”

Posing for a photo were, left to right, Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks; Roger Juan Maldonado, president of the New York City Bar Association; award recipients Michael Hausler, chief clerk, Surrogate's Court, Bronx County; Ananias Grajales, assistant deputy chief clerk, Civil Court of the City of New York; Jessica Santiago, senior court clerk, Supreme Court, Bronx County;  Lissette Garcia, case management coordinator, Supreme Court, New York County; Sadie Zea Ishee, deputy chief attorney, Appellate Division, First Department; Rolando Acosta, Presiding Justice of the First Department; and George Silver, Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for New York City Courts.