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About the Chuck Newman Award
ACR-GNY’s Chuck Newman Award (formerly the Frontline Champion Award) recognizes individuals who have made a meaningful impact on the field of alternative dispute resolution. Chuck Newman Award honorees are named and celebrated at each year's Mediation Settlement Day event.
Remembering Chuck Newman
In 2022, we lost a beacon of light in New York's ADR community. Chuck Newman was a former ACR-GNY president and member of the Roundtable Breakfast organizing committee. Chuck spent over a decade supporting the growth of the ADR field. Still, more than that, he was deeply invested in our ADR community: the people who spend their time and emotional resources to explore peaceful resolutions.
In recognition of Chuck and his legacy, ACR-GNY has named an award in his honor. Every year at Mediation Settlement Day, we will now bestow the Chuck Newman Award for Impact in the ADR Community to an individual or organization.
Past Chuck Newman Award Honorees
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YEAR |
CHUCK NEWMAN AWARD HONOREE(S) |
| 2022 | New York Peace Institute |
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2021 |
Alexandra Carter, Columbia Law |
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2020 |
Chris M. Kwok, Mediator, Arbitrator and Neutral at JAMS |
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2019 |
Rebecca Price, Director of ADR Programs at the US District Court of the Southern District of New York |
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2018 |
Daniel Weitz, Esq, Director, Division of Professional & Court Services, NYS Unified Court System |
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2017 |
Johnston Barkat, United Nations Assistant Secretary General |
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2016 |
Hon. Kathleen A. Roberts (Ret.), Mediator, Arbitrator, and special discovery master, JAMS |
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2015 |
Gerald P. Lepp, retired ADR Administrator for the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York |
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2014 |
Kenneth Andrichik, Senior Vice President, Chief Counsel, and Director of Mediation Strategy, FINRA Dispute Resolution |
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2013 |
Roger M. Deitz, Distinguished Mediator and Arbitrator |
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2012 |
Commissioner Timothy Germany, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service |
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2011 |
Maria Volpe Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Director of the Dispute Resolution Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice-City of University of New York |
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2010 |
Margaret Shaw Esq., JAMS mediator |
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2009 |
Professor Lela Love, Director, Cardozo Law School’s Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution |
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2008 |
Roger Brach, Safe Horizon Brooklyn/Manhattan; Bill Powell, Center for Dispute Settlement Inc.; and Bill Carroll, Mediation Center of Dutchess County (tri-champions recognized for 25 years of volunteer service as mediators in the Community Dispute Resolution Centers Program) |
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2007 |
Former Chief Judge Tina Brozman, Southern District Bankruptcy |
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2006 |
Professor Carol Liebman, Columbia Law School |
Questions? Nominations? Please email us at questions@acrgny.org.
Photos from Mediation Settlement Day |
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