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Judge Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to deliver 裡橖眻畦 University Charles Widger School of Laws 2018 Commencement Address, May 18

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裡橖眻畦, Pa. Mark C. Alexander, Arthur J. Kania Dean of 裡橖眻畦 University Charles Widger School of Law, announced that Judge Joseph A. Greenaway of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit will address the Class of 2018 as the Schools commencement speaker and will also receive the 裡橖眻畦 Law Medallion Award in recognition of his achievements. Commencement will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, May 18, 2018, on The Campus Green on the campus of 裡橖眻畦 University.

Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. received his commission from President Obama as the sixty-second jurist appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on February 12, 2010. Judge Greenaway was sworn in on February 24, 2010, and sits in Newark, New Jersey. He earned his BA in History from Columbia College in 1978 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1981.

Judge Greenaways legal career began as a litigation associate with the New York law firm of Kramer, Levin, Nessen, Kamin and Frankel. After a clerkship with the late Hon. Vincent L. Broderick of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, he returned to the Kramer, Levin firm for two years. In 1985, Judge Greenaway joined the United States Attorneys Office for the District of New Jersey, where he was subsequently promoted to Chief of the Narcotics Bureau. He prosecuted the governments case against Wayne Pray, a.k.a.  Akbar, which resulted in Akbar being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Prior to his appointment to the federal bench, he served as in-house counsel for Johnson & Johnson. On July 26, 1996, at the age of thirty-eight, Judge Greenaway received his commission from President Clinton as the sixty-seventh jurist appointed to the federal bench in New Jersey. He was sworn in as a federal judge on September 20, 1996.  

Judge Greenaway is a member of the Columbia University Board of Trustees, a former member of the Columbia College Board of Visitors, Chair Emeritus of the Columbia College Black Alumni Council and a former secretary of the Columbia College Alumni Association. Judge Greenaway is a member of the American, National and Garden State Bar Associations. He has served as an adjunct professor at Rutgers School of LawNewark; Columbia College, where he taught a seminar on the Supreme Court; and Cardozo School of Law, where he currently teaches courses on trial practice and appellate advocacy. 

Judge Greenaway is the recipient of numerous honors including the New Jersey Corporate Counsel Associations Distinguished Service Award (1996); Columbia Universitys Medal of Excellence (1997) and Alumni Medal (2014); the Garden State Bar Associations Distinguished Jurist Award (1999); Columbia Colleges John Jay Award (2003); the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Award of Excellence (2007); the Garden State Bar Associations Roger M. Yancey Award (2007); the Caribbean Bar Association of New Jerseys Scales of Justice Award of Excellence (2010); YMWCA of Newarks Leaders and Legends Award; the New Jersey Women Lawyers Associations Trailblazer Award (2011);  and the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jerseys William J. Brennan, Jr. Award (2015). Judge Greenaway received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Suffolk University in 2013. His alma mater, the Bronx High School of Science, inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 2018.

A frequent invited speaker, Judge Greenaway delivered the Class Day address at Columbia Colleges commencement in 1998; the commencement address at Cardozo School of Law in 2006; and Rutgers Law Schools Weintraub Lecture in 1998, which was subsequently published in Rutgers Law Review. His work has also been published in leading journals, including Litigation, Columbia Journal of Race and Law and Cardozo Law Review.

 

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