Suffern appoints first female village justice
Photo credit: Courtesy of Beth Capuano | Stephanie Furgang Adwar will be sworn as the first female judge for Suffern Village Court. (Nov. 28, 2012)
The mayor of Suffern appointed Stephanie Furgang Adwar as the village's first female acting justice Wednesday.
A lifelong Suffern resident, Adwar is a founding partner of the law firm Furgang & Adwar, LLP in West Nyack. She earned her law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.
"I'm very honored to have been asked to serve," Adwar told Newsday. "I'm a...
