We at JALBCA and the many people whose lives Susan touched greatly mourn the passing of our colleague and friend, Susan Solomon. As an organization, JALBCA achieves its goals only through the efforts of its volunteer lawyers and judges. Susan was integral to those efforts.

Susan was responsible for one of JALBCA's major, annual achievements, the October Courthouse Alert -- a week devoted to disseminating material about breast and prostate cancer to the public, lawyers and court personnel who frequent our courthouses. Literature is given out in courthouses throughout the State, demonstrations and talks are held, and vans providing mammography's are made available.

The task of organizing this massive project is Herculean, and for the last few years, Susan performed that task with her usual style, grace and competence. It was Susan who devoted endless hours and her great talent for organization to making our Courthouse Alert such a success.

A member of both the Brooklyn and New York Chapters of WBASNY, Susan was also active in the courthouse community. She sat on the Executive Committee of the Law Secretaries' and Law Assistants' Collegium, Inc., Supreme and Surrogates Court, First Department, and was a member of the Anti-Bias Committee of the Supreme Court, Civil Branch, New York County.

Susan was an active member of JALBCA. She served as JALBCA's Secretary and was co-chair of its Committee of the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York Board. She graduated from Barnard College and Fordham University School of Law and, upon graduation, worked in the Appellate Division, Second Department, as a Court Attorney and Law Clerk to Justice William C. Thompson, Sr. She most recently served as Court Attorney to Justice Robert D. Lippmann. Prior to attending law school, Susan held positions in the Office of the Mayor, the Office of the City Council President and the New York City Office of Economic Development, as well as in the private sector in the area of media and public relations.

We at JALBCA are fortunate to have had Susan as a friend and grateful for all of the work she did for our organization. She will be deeply missed.