WBASNY Virtual Convention 2021 Journal

Betty Weinberg Ellerin Mentoring Award

Myrna Felder Myrna Felder, a graduate of Brown University and NYU School of Law was active in the founding of WBASNY, served as its President in 1986-1987, after having established the Matrimonial Law Committee, its first substantive committee. She has served as Co- President of JALBCA, of which she was one of the founders. Ms. Felder has also long served on the Board of Directors of the Office of the Appellate Defender, (“OAD”). A talented speaker, she has lectured widely among others for WBASNY and it’s many chapters, the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York County Lawyers Association, Appellate Division, First Department and at the many training programs for Matrimonial Judges, Special

Referees and their staffs as well as the Judicial Institute.

For many years, Ms. Felder authored a bi-monthly column on Family Law in the New York Law Journal.