Lisa Bloch Rodwin wins unanimous Senate approval as Family Court judge
By Matt Gryta
Updated: 05/07/08 4:07 PM
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- Lisa Bloch Rodwin, 50, is chief of the Erie County District Attorney's Domestic Violence Bureau.
Lisa Bloch Rodwin will be sworn in as Erie County's newest Family Court judge May 29.
The state Senate Tuesday unanimously approved her nomination by Gov. David A. Paterson and she was applauded by the full State Assembly during proceedings in Albany.
The new judge, a nationally recognized expert in the field of family violence, will be sworn in at Erie County Hall by State Supreme Court Justice James H. Dillon, whose seat on the domestic affairs court she will fill.
Justice Sharon S. Townsend, administrative judge of the state's Buffalo-based Eighth Judicial District, is scheduled to preside at the swearing-in ceremony.
Bloch Rodwin, 50, is chief of the Erie County District Attorney's Domestic Violence Bureau. A life-long Democrat, she was unanimously approved by the Republican-led Senate and warmly greated by the area's Assemblymen and women moments later.
She will fill out the Family Court vacancy until the end of December. Bloch Rodwin previously indicated that, if confirmed, she would seek endorsements of all major local political parties in her bid for a full 10-year term in November.
In nominating Bloch Rodwin, Paterson said her "experience and dedication will be a tremendous addition" to the state's court system.
A 1979 graduate of Rutgers University and a 1985 graduate of the University at Buffalo Law School, the area's newest judge lives in Amherst with her husband, Michael Rickert, a Roswell Park Cancer Institute researcher, and is the mother of two sons.
