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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: Monday, April 19, 1999

Release #135 -99

Contact: Sunny Mindel/Matthew Higgins (212) 788-2958


MAYOR GIULIANI APPOINTS FOUR JUDGES TO THE CRIMINAL COURTS

In a City Hall ceremony today, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani appointed four judges to the Criminal Courts and administered the oath of office.

"The continuing excellence of New York City's criminal justice system is dependent upon judges who uphold the highest standard of integrity and professionalism," Mayor Giuliani said. "Throughout their careers, the four men and women whom I have appointed today have demonstrated that level of integrity and professionalism. With several decades of combined public service between them, I am confident these newly appointed judges will dispense justice with fairness and compassion and will prove themselves deserving of the trust the public has vested in them."

The Mayor appointed the following four Criminal Court Judges today: Darcel D. Clark has been an Assistant District Attorney in Bronx County since graduating from law school in 1986. She first served as a trial attorney from 1986 to 1993. From 1993 to 1997, she served as a supervisor in the Narcotics Bureau and since June 1997, has been the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Court Bureau. She has served as an Adjunct Professor at both Baruch College and Bronx Community College. Ms. Clark is a member of Association of Trial Lawyers and was on the Board of Directors of the Black Bar Association of Bronx County from 1996 through 1998. Ms. Clark is a graduate of Howard University Law School and Boston College.

Joseph E. Gubbay began his legal career in the Legal Aid Society of Nassau County where he served from 1980 to 1982. In 1983, he worked as a staff attorney on the New York City Mayor's Arson Strike Force. From 1984 to 1996, Mr. Gubbay joined the New York City Department of Investigation as Inspector General for various municipal agencies, supervising the investigation of over 350 cases. Since 1996, Mr. Gubbay has served as the Executive Director of The Commission to Combat Police Corruption. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association and is a graduate of Tufts University and New York University Law School.

Diane Kiesel has been an Assistant District Attorney in New York County since 1989. From 1985 to 1987, Ms. Kiesel served as a Law Clerk first to U.S. District Court Judge for District of Maryland, James R. Miller, Jr. and then to District Court Judge Frederic N. Smalkin of that Court. From 1989 to 1995, she served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Trial Bureau before joining the Homicide Bureau in 1995. In November 1996, she was assigned to the Official Corruption Unit and has recently been promoted to Deputy Bureau Chief of the Family Violence and Child Abuse Bureau. Ms. Kiesel has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School since 1992. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York County Lawyers Association. She is a graduate of Douglass College and graduated first in her class from Catholic University Law School.

Neil E. Ross was appointed a Civil Court Judge in May 1998 and is assigned to the Criminal Court in New York County. He began his legal career in 1984 as an Assistant District Attorney for Kings County, where he served primarily as a trial attorney but also as a Special Assistant United States Attorney and State representative to a Federal Task Force from 1989 to 1990. In 1990, he became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, Organized Crime and Racketeering Section. From 1995 to 1998, he was the Chief of Case Intake and Arraignments for the United States Attorney in the Eastern District. Judge Ross is a graduate of Dickinson College and Syracuse University Law School.

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