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On
December 2, 2015, the Police Athletic League hosted its 27th Annual
Women of the Year Luncheon, honoring Sheila
L. Birnbaum, Co-Head, Global Products Liability and Mass
Torts, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP; Kirsten
Gillibrand, United States Senator for New York; Elizabeth
D. Moore, Senior Vice President and General Counsel,
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. and Sheila
Nevins, President, HBO Documentary Films. The luncheon,
which was held at The Pierre in Manhattan and welcomed 250
guests, celebrated these four women while helping our city’s
children reach their full potential, and raised over
$360,000 for the nonprofit.
Julie
Myers Wood was
the Event Chair with Amelia
Bernstein as
Honorary Chair. Co-chairs were Carmen
Anderson, Barbara
Taylor Bradford, Margo
Catsimatidis, Joan
Ganz Cooney, Faith
Gay, Yoko
Ono Lennon and Pamela
J. Newman. Committee members included Karen
E. Burke, M.D., Ph.
D., Caroline
Hirsch, Megan
Kultgen, Lucy
Jane Lang, Connie
Lawler, Danielle
Maged, Joan
McGuire, Lesley
B. Osborn, Cheryl
M. Schwartz, Allison
Maher Stern and Diana
L. Taylor. The host for the luncheon wasHon.
Jeanine Pirro.
Sheila L.
Birnbaum,
Co-Head, Global Products Liability and Mass Torts, Quinn
Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, has been national counsel
or lead defense counsel for numerous Fortune 500 companies
in some of the largest and most complicated tort cases in
the country. She received the prestigious ABA Margaret Brent
Achievement Award, and was the first tenured female
professor at Fordham University Law School. Prior to
joining Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Ms. Birnbaum was
a Founder and Director of NYWBA and the first co-president
of JALCBA.
United
States Senator for New York, Kirsten
Gillibrand, was elected and sworn in as U.S. Senator in
2009. Her priority is rebuilding the economy by creating
good-paying jobs, helping small businesses and stamping more
products with “Made in America.” An advocate for our armed
services, she held the first Senate hearing on sexual
assault in the military, building a coalition of 55
Senators. Ms. Gillibrand is the first New York Senator to
sit on the Agriculture Committee. Prior to becoming a member
of Congress, Senator Gillibrand served as Special Counsel to
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
under Andrew Cuomo.
Elizabeth
D. Moore,
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Consolidated
Edison Company of New York, Inc., earned a law degree from
St. John’s University. Prior to joining Con Edison, she was
a partner of Nixon Peabody LLP and served in the
administration of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo for
12 years. Ms. Moore received the Ida B. Weels-Barnett
Justice Award from the New York County Lawyers’ Association
and the Metropolitan Black Bar Association. She also serves
on the Board of Directors of the National Action Council of
Minorities in Engineering. Ms. Moore served on Cornell’s
Board of Trustees, was elected Trustee Emeritus, and their
highest recognition of Presidential Councilor.
As
President of HBO Documentary Films, Sheila
Nevins is
responsible for overseeing the development and production of
all documentaries for HBO, HBO2 and Cinemax. As an executive
producer or producer, she has received 31 Primetime Emmy
Awards, 33 News and Documentary Emmys and 40 George Foster
Peabody Awards. During her tenure, HBO has won 25 Academy
Awards. Ms. Nevins has been honored with the Governors Award
from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and was made
an NYU Tisch School Arts Honoree. She is the recipient of a
Gotham Awards Tribute; an Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award
and a personal Peabody Award.
New York
City’s Police Athletic League is the first and finest
civilian-run PAL in the country. Founded in 1914, PAL has
served the city’s young people for over 100 years. PAL
provides recreational, educational, cultural and social
activities to 35,000 boys and girls annually. It is also
the city’s largest, independent, nonprofit youth
organization. For more information, please visit
www.palnyc.org
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