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S. Grover Cleveland (1837 - 1908)
- Served as Assistant District Attorney Erie County, 1863-1866
- Served as Sheriff of Erie County, 1870-1873
- Served as Mayor of Buffalo, 1882
- Served as Governor of New York State, 1883-1885
- Served as President of the United States, 1885-1889, 1893-1897
M. Dolores Denman (1931 - 2000)
- Graduated from SUNY/Buffalo Law School and admitted to practice, 1966
- Member of the staff of the General Counsel of the Panama Canal Company, the United States government corporation that governed the Panama Canal, 1966
- Assistant District Attorney for Erie County, 1969
- Appointed to Buffalo City Court and was then elected to serve a full term, 1972
- Elected Supreme Court Justice, 1976
- Designated as Associate Justice of the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, 1977
- Resigned as judge to run as Democratic candidate for New York State Attorney General, 1978
- Reappointed to New York State Supreme Court after losing the election, 1979
- Appointed as Associate Justice in the Appellate Division, Fourth Department in Rochester by Governor Hugh Carey, 1981
- Received University Women Award in light of her serving on an area panel created to watch over Women's Rights in the Courts, 1988
- Appointed Presiding Justice, Appellate Division, Fourth Department by Governor Mario Cuomo, 1991.
- Received NYSBA Schapiro Memorial Award for distinction on the bench, 1997
Charles S. Desmond (1896 - 1987)
- Graduated University of Buffalo Law School, 1920
- Appointed to New York State Supreme Court Eighth Judicial District by Governor Herbert Lehman, 1940
- Elected to New York State Court of Appeals, 1940
- Served as Associate Judge on the New York State Court of Appeals, 1941-1960
- Considered for appointment as Associate Justice of United States Supreme Court, 1949
- Published "Sharp Quillets of the Law" (1949) and "Through the Courtroom Window" (1959)
- Considered as Democratic candidate for Governor, 1950
- Chief Judge of New York State Court of Appeals, 1960-1966
- Received Canisius College's Citizen's award, 1961
- Participated in London Jurists Parley, 1961
- Awarded Gold Medal by New York State Bar Association, 1964
- Following retirement, returned to private practice, taught at Cornell University Law School and served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Buffalo Law School
Michael F. Dillon (1927 - 1991)
- Graduated from University of Buffalo Law School and admitted to practice, 1951
- Served as Corporation Counsel for the City of Lackawanna, 1958-1960
- Elected for 10 years as Erie County District Attorney at age 36, 1963
- Elected to New York State Supreme Court, 1973
- Designated as Associate Justice of Appellate Division, Fourth Department, 1976
- Appointed Presiding Justice of Appellate Division, Fourth Department by Governor Hugh Carey, 1979
- Reappointed as Presiding Justice, 1987-1991
- Created the Indigent Criminal Appeals Management Program (22 NYCRR part 1021), designed to monitor the perfection of assigned criminal appeals, 1988
Vincent E. Doyle (1932 - 2006)
- Graduated from University of Buffalo Law School and admitted to practice, 1956
- Served as Public Defender, 1957-1959
- Elected to New York State Supreme Court, 1979
- Received Erie County Bar Association's Outstanding Jurist Award, 1988
- Received State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law Distinguished Alumni Award, 1994
- Appointed as Administrative Judge for the Eighth Judicial District, 1995
- Named as one of the 100 most influential people in Western New York, Business First, 1998
Millard Fillmore (1800 - 1874)
- Admitted to New York State Bar, 1823
- Admitted to practice in New York State Supreme Court, 1827
- Member of New York State Assembly, 1828-1832
- Member of United State House of Representatives, 1833-35; 1837-41
- New York State Comptroller, 1847
- Served as the United States Vice-President under Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
- Served as 13th President of the United States, 1850-1853
- Served as the first Chancellor of the University of Buffalo
- Founder of the Buffalo Historical Society
- Resided at 52 Niagara Square, corner of Delaware, 1858-1874. The building was later demolished to make way for the Statler Hotel.
Robert H. Jackson (1892 - 1954)
- Admitted to the New York State Bar with one year of law school and 2 years of clerkship, 1913
- Served as General Counsel for Internal Revenue Bureau in Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration in Washington, DC, 1932
- Promoted to United States Assistant Attorney General, 1936
- Possible candidate for New York State Governor, 1937
- Served as Solicitor General of the United States, 1938
- Served as United States Attorney General, 1940
- Appointed to United States Supreme Court, 1941
- Appointed by President Truman, to the position of United States Chief of Counsel for preparing Nazi war criminal trials in Nurnberg, 1945
- Authored "The Case Against the Nazi Criminals", 1946
Matthew J. Jasen (1915 - 2006)
- Graduated from University of Buffalo Law School and admitted to the New York State Bar, 1939
- Received an appointment as the United States Military Court Judge at Heidelberg after serving in the armed service during World War II. Conducted trials of Nazi youth groups in Germany, 1948
- Appointed to New York State Supreme Court by Governor Harriman, 1957
- Elected to New York State Court of Appeals, 1967
William B. Lawless (1922 - )
- Received law degree from University of Notre Dame, 1944
- Served as Buffalo Corporation Counsel, 1954
- Buffalo Common Council President, 1955
- Partner in the firm Lawless, Dare, Doerr & Offermann, 1956
- Turned down post with United States housing agency (HUD)
- Elected New York State Supreme Court Justice, 1959.
- Dean of Notre Dame Law School, 1968
- Resigns Deanship to join New York City firm, 1971
Ann T. Mikoll (1930 - )
- Graduated from University of Buffalo Law School, 1954
- Named to City Court Judgeship by Mayor Pankow to fill a vacancy left by then City Court Judge Frank Sedita, who left the position to run for Mayor of Buffalo, 1957
- Served as Buffalo City Court Judge, 1957-1971
- Elected to New York State Supreme Court, 1971. Re-elected, 1985
- Appointed as Associate Justice in Appellate Division, Third Department in Albany by Governor Hugh Carey, 1977
- Reappointed by Governor Mario Cuomo, 1988, 1992
John Lord O'Brian (1874 - 1973)
- Received his L.L.B. degree from Buffalo Law School, 1898
- Served under the administration of five United States Presidents including Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Appointed as U.S. District Attorney for the Western District of New York, 1909- 1921
- Served as Head of the War Emergency Division where he prosecuted cases of espionage and sabotage, 1914-1918.
- Appointed as Assistant Attorney General of the Anti-Trust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and argued more than 15 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, 1929
- Served as a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Buffalo, 1931-1948
- Retained by the Tennessee Valley Authority to serve as Counsel, 1935
- Received Chancellor's Medal, 1940
- Appointed as General Counsel of the War Production Board, 1941
- Received the University of Buffalo Law School's first Distinguished Alumnus Award for Public Service, 1963
- O'Brian Hall, currently housing the SUNY/Buffalo Law School was dedicated to Mr. O'Brian in 1974
Cuthbert W. Pound (1864 - 1935)
- Graduated from Cornell Law School, 1887
- Admitted to the New York State Bar, 1886
- Professor of Law at Cornell University, 1895-1904
- Nationally recognized authority on constitutional and statutory law
- Lockport City Attorney, 1889-1891
- Elected to New York State Senate, 1894-1985
- Appointed by Governor Theodore Roosevelt to serve on the New York State Civil Service Commission, 1900-1905
- Appointed and subsequently elected as Justice of the New York State Supreme Court, 1906-1915
- Appointed and subsequently elected as Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, 1915-1932
- Chair of the New York State Constitutional Convention responsible for revising the judiciary articles, 1921
- Named as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1932
Hamilton Ward III (1905 - 1981)
- Elected Erie County Court Judge, 1941
- Elected to New York State Supreme Court, 1946, 1960
- Served as Administrative Judge of the Eighth Judicial District, 1962-1966
- Retired, 1970
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