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PRESIDENT OF <strong>HOF</strong>STRA UNIVERSITY<br />

STUART<br />

RABINOWITZ<br />

Stuart Rabinowitz was chosen<br />

by the Hofstra University<br />

Board of Trustees to serve<br />

as the eighth president of the<br />

University on December 20,<br />

2000. Prior to his appointment,<br />

he served as dean of Hofstra<br />

University School of Law<br />

from September 1989 through<br />

June 2001. He joined the<br />

faculty of the School of Law<br />

in 1972. President Rabinowitz<br />

currently holds the Andrew<br />

M. Boas and Mark L. Claster<br />

Distinguished Professorship in<br />

Civil Procedure.<br />

President Rabinowitz holds<br />

positions with a number of<br />

important government and<br />

<strong>com</strong>munity organizations,<br />

including the Judicial<br />

Advisory Council of the State<br />

of New York Unified Court<br />

System - County of Nassau, and the Nassau County<br />

Health and Welfare Council. He serves as a trustee of the<br />

Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities,<br />

and on the Board of Directors for the Fair Media Council<br />

and the Long Island Technology Network. President<br />

Rabinowitz is a former member of the Nassau County<br />

Blue Ribbon Financial Review Panel, former chair of<br />

the Nassau County Local Advisory Board, and a former<br />

member of the Board of Directors of the Long Island<br />

Association. Additionally, President Rabinowitz served<br />

as a member of the Nassau County Commission on<br />

Government Revision, which was charged with drafting<br />

a new charter and a new form of government for the<br />

County. He is the recipient of the Martin Luther King<br />

Living the Dream Award, EOC; Distinguished Service in<br />

the Cause of Justice, Legal Aid Society; UJA Federation<br />

Leadership Award; the Bar Association of Nassau County<br />

Proclamation for Outstanding Service to both the legal<br />

profession and the <strong>com</strong>munity; the Community Service<br />

48 — 2011 Hofstra Men’s Lacrosse<br />

Award from the Conference of Jewish<br />

Organizations of Nassau County; and the<br />

Alumni Association of the City College<br />

of New York 2005 Townsend Harris<br />

Medal. He has also been honored by the<br />

Long Island Software and Technology<br />

Network (LISTnet) and was the recipient of<br />

Networking magazine’s David Award.<br />

President Rabinowitz received a juris<br />

doctor, magna cum laude, from Columbia<br />

University School of Law, where he was<br />

a member of the board of editors of the<br />

Columbia Law Review and a Harlan Fiske<br />

Stone Scholar. He graduated from City<br />

College of New York with honors, and<br />

is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the<br />

American Law Institute.<br />

President Rabinowitz, Nancy Rabinowitz and then-Senator<br />

Barack Obama prior to the Presidential Debate at Hofstra in<br />

October 2008

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