{"id":341291,"date":"2026-09-09T01:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341291\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T01:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:16:28","slug":"brooklyn-womens-bar-hosts-inaugural-back-to-school-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341291\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Women\u2019s Bar hosts inaugural back to school event"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt\u2019s important for the kids to know that they are supported by the community as they start their new school year, and what better way to do that than to give them what they need to do well and achieve academic success?\u201d Judge Rhonda Tomlinson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThroughout my career, I\u2019ve participated in career days where I speak to kids, and I feel it\u2019s very good to start interacting with them as early as possible.\u201d Judge Ellen Spodek said. \u201cIt demonstrates that people care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judge Lillian Wan called the event a \u201cwonderful initiative.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI salute our president for being a part of this,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s really important for members of the judiciary to be active in this way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wan\u2019s son, Nathan, 18, has been involved in community service since his junior year in high school. \u201cI love it,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve worked in soup kitchens every Sunday for the past year. It\u2019s rewarding and a lot of fun.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Coming up for the BWBA\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fequiere told the Brooklyn Eagle she chose P.S. 241 because one of its members has a history there, \u201cbut we plan on expanding next year and going to different schools in various areas of Brooklyn,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"P.S.<\/a>P.S. 241 students alongside parents, judges and Principal Tamara Foy. Photo: Wayne Daren Schneiderman\/Brooklyn Eagle<\/p>\n

Fequiere also discussed the BWBA\u2019s upcoming events. \u201cWe have a lot of things planned this year,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re working on Hispanic Heritage Month, which will be coming up in September, and October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We also have our holiday party in December where we do a toy drive and give gently used coats to children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fequiere also said she is looking to expand the BWBA\u2019s membership. \u201cWe\u2019re attending an upcoming New York Law School open house, where we hope to recruit some law students and even some attorneys,\u201d she said. \u201cThen, we are doing our annual membership event party in October, where we will be honoring Judge Marsha Steinhardt, a BWBA past president.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nine women lawyers created the BWBA in 1918 to improve equality, diversity, fairness and opportunity for women lawyers and all women. Since then, the association has grown to include several hundred members and is also affiliated with the Women\u2019s Bar Association of the State of New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s important for the kids to know that they are supported by the community as they start their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[5604,98,100,99,9344,3308,67,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-341291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-back-to-school","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-womens-bar-association-bwba-brooklyn-womens-bar-association","tag-daily-bulletin","tag-education","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}