To honor an individual, not necessarily a lawyer, who has contributed to New York State in a manner that reflects Dean Burns’ commitment to the struggle for justice and the qualities that made him an outstanding advocate for civil rights and the empowerment of the powerless.
To be Presented at the…
2025 Haywood Burns Memorial Award Ceremony
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
CUNY School of Law
Community Room
2 Court Square West
Queens, NY 11101
Congratulations to this year’s award winner, Lillian M. Moy, Esq.!
Lillian M. Moy served as the Executive Director of the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern
New York, Inc. from 1995 until she retired in 2022.
She is a 1981 graduate of Boston University School of Law.
She is a former member of the Board of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association and past Chair of NLADA’s Civil Policy Group.
Ms. Moy is a leader in the American Bar Association, serving as a member of the Delivery of Legal Services Committee.
Past Commissioner on the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, a past Chair of the ABA’s Coalition on Racial & Ethnic Justice and a past member of legal services and pro bono committees.
She co-chaired the New York State Bar Association’s Task Force on Racism, Social Equity and the Law and served on the NYSBA Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Asian Hate.
Since her retirement, she helped to organize a Symposium on Racism, Wealth Equity and the law and is organizing an AAPI Town Hall.
She is the mother of two fierce and accomplished daughters, one very tall and smart granddaughter and proud partner of Dr. Eliot Rich.
AWARD RECIPIENTS
2024 Remla Parthasarathy
2023 Hon. Betty E. Staton
2022 No Award Presented
2021 No Award Presented
2020 Armen H. Merjian, Esq.
2019 John R. Dunne, Esq.
2018 Esmeralda Simmons, Esq.
2017 Frederick K. Brewington, Esq.
2016 Vincent Warren
2015 Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq.
2014 Robert Gangi
2013 Howard Glickstein, Esq.
2012 Bryan D. Hetherington, Esq.
2011 Cesar A. Perales, Esq.
2010 Mary Crisalli Sansone
2009 Dr. Parveen Chopra
2008 Donna Lieberman
2007 John F. Boston
2006 Hon. Cornelius Blackshear
2005 Laurie M. Lambrix, Esq.
2004 Leroy Wilson, Jr., Esq.
2003 Juan A. Figueroa
2002 Hon. Ellen M. Yacknin
2001 Rockwell J. Chin, Esq.
2000 Hon. Pam Badoria Jackman Brown, Esq.
1999 Prof. Randolph M. Scott-McLaughlin