[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 19 (Wednesday, January 30, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E109]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            HOWARD G. LANE--JUSTICE, JUDGE LAWYER, ADVOCATE

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                         HON. GREGORY W. MEEKS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 30, 2019

  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, the Honorable Howard G. Lane, Supreme Court 
Justice, Queens County, 11th Judicial District (Retired) was elected 
Judge of the Civil Court in Queens County in November 2003, after 24 
years of practicing law. A graduate of Manhattan College where he was 
awarded a Bachelor of Science degree and awarded a Juris Doctor degree 
in 1978 from Hofstra University Law School and the recipient of 
Fredrick Douglass National Moot Court Competition, ``Best Oralist'' 
Northeast Regional Competition Award and admitted to practice law in 
the state of New York in 1979.
  From 1979 to Judge Lane's election to the Civil Court, he served as 
Law Clerk and Principal Court Attorney for Supreme Court Justice Leslie 
G. Leach in the Queens County Court prior to serving as a sole 
practitioner engaged in the private practice of law and hearings. In 
his long and distinguished career, he also served as a Hearing Officer 
for the Transit Adjudication Bureau and staff attorney for Community 
Action for Legal Services, Inc.
  Justice Lane's approach to leadership is exemplified by his fervent 
belief in the concept of teamwork and empowerment. His aim has been to 
lead by example, re-energizing and transforming the culture of the 
judicial institutions he has led through a partnership between 
administrators and front-line staff. His commitment to the Judicial 
System and his respect for the value of our law resulted in his legal 
opinions and rulings being recognized as exemplary of the finest legal 
analysis and thinking.
  That I, Gregory W. Meeks, Member of the 116th Congress, on behalf of 
the constituents of the Fifth Congressional District of New York, 
congratulate Howard G. Lane for his twenty-four years of service to 
quality legal practice. On behalf of the 723,000 residents of the Fifth 
Congressional District, I thank Judge Lane for his outstanding and 
ongoing contribution to our Judicial Institution's integrity and local 
and global community's wellbeing.

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