The Louis J. Lefkowitz Award is given annually in honor of Louis J. Lefkowitz, who for 22 years served as the longest-serving Attorney General of New York State. Lefkowitz wrote the very first article published by the Fordham Urban Law Journal.
Each year, the Fordham Urban Law Journal Alumni Association (FULJAA) presents the Louis J. Lefkowitz Award to a notable individual who has made outstanding achievements in public service and substantial contributions to the law as it affects our urban communities.
Past recipients of the Lefkowitz Award include:
2023 John B. Kiernan
2022 Barbara D. Underwood
2021 Hon. George J. Silver
2020 Lee M. Cortes, Jr.
2019 Valerie White
2017 Patrick J. Foye
2016 Maria L. Marcus
2015 Rosemonde Pierre-Lewis
2014 Rosanne Haggerty
2013 Helen R. Kanovsky
2012 Dennison Young, Jr.
2011 Joel Klein
2010 Charles J. Hynes
2009 Hon. Judith S. Kaye
2008 Kenneth R. Feinberg
2007 Raymond W. Kelly
2006 Hon George Bundy Smith
2005 Hon. Leslie Crocker Snyder
2004 Robert M. Morgenthau
2003 Constantine N. Katsoris
2002 Mary Jo White
2001 Mark Green
2000 Matthew Diller
1999 Jacqueline M. Nolan-Haley
1998 Joseph A. O’Hare
1997 Daniel T. Scannell
1996 Jacqueline W. Silbermann
1995 John J. Barrett
1994 Karen Burstein
1993 Matthew T. Crosson
1992 Charles L. Brieant
1991 John Feerick
1990 Frederick August Otto Schwarz
1989 Ross Sandler
1988 Andrew J. Maloney
1987 Stanley Fink
1986 Geraldine A. Ferraro
1985 Robert M. Hayes
1984 Robert Abrams
1983 John F. Keenan
1982 Archibald R. Murray
