Spitzer names new Ethics Commission chair
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Governor Eliot Spitzer today appointed John Feerick to serve as chairman of the State Ethics Commission. Feerick will replace Paul Schechtman, who resigned. Spitzer said Feerick is also his pick to head a merged Commission on Public Integrity, set in September to replace the State Ethics Commission and the Temporary State Commission on Lobbying.
Feerick served as dean of Fordham Law School for 20 years, from 1982 to 2002, and currently serves as the Norris Professor of Law at the law school. He is also the founder and director of the Law School’s Feerick Center for Social Justice and Dispute Resolution. Since 2003 he has chaired the New York State Commission to Promote Public Confidence in Judicial Elections and he previously served as a court-appointed Judicial Referee in the case of Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. New York State. From 1987-1990, serving as Special Deputy New York State Attorney General, Dean Feerick chaired the New York State Commission on Government Integrity that led to the adoption of the 1987 Ethics in Government Act.
He was a member of the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom from 1961 to 1982. He also participated in the formulation, adoption and implementation of the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which relates to presidential succession and was ratified in 1967.
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