Pace Women’s Justice Center Annual Benefit Dinner:
A Celebration of Justice for Women
Honorees: Richard L. Ottinger and Colleen McGrath
Keynote Speaker:  Rossana Rosado, Publisher & CEO, El Diario-La Prensa

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.— Pace Law School’s Women’s Justice Center will honor Colleen McGrath, former director, Criminal Justice Training Programs, New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence, and Richard L. Ottinger, former congressman Richard L. Ottinger, dean emeritus of Pace Law School, at the Center's third annual benefit dinner, A Celebration of Justice for Women, on Wednesday, September 13, 2000, at the Tarrytown House in Tarrytown, New York. Ms. McGrath will receive the Diane White Legal Advocacy Award and Dean Ottinger will receive the Creative Vision for Women’s Justice Award. Pace University alumna, Rossana Rosado, publisher and CEO of El Diario-La Prensa, will deliver the keynote address and attorney Michael G. Dowd, founder of the Women’s Justice Center, will serve as Master of Ceremonies.

Founded in 1991 as the Pace Battered Women’s Justice Center, the Women’s Justice Center is a non-for-profit organization that has grown in both mission and size. The Center has a staff of fourteen attorneys, with diverse civil and criminal law backgrounds, who specialize in domestic violence intervention and the legal representation of battered women. In addition to providing direct, individual client counsel, the Center serves as a national resource for lawyers and judges, offers training and public education programs, and promotes research and scholarship on domestic violence. Students at Pace Law School work as legal interns at the Center and are engaged in every facet its work. Under the supervision of the Center's attorneys, Pace students each year represent hundreds of domestic violence victims in Family Court.

The Annual Dinner will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a one-hour CLE (Continuing Legal Education) program, "Ethics, Women and the Law." Cocktails and a silent auction begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner. Silent auction items include: weekend stays at five-star New York City hotels; tickets to the U. S. Open, the Knicks and Mets; shopping sprees in Westchester villages; and memberships to fitness clubs. Individual dinner tickets are $150 and sponsorship tables are available for $10,000, 5,000 3,000, and 1,500. For more information on journal ads, tickets and donations call, Lillian Fanelli at 
(914) 422-4062.