Hon. W. Dennis
Duggan
W. Dennis Duggan has been a Family
Court Judge since 1994. He has served as a Trustee of the National
Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and is a Past President of the
New York State Family Court Judges Association. He is also a past director of the American Judges Association and the American Judicature Society. Judge Duggan is also a founding Board
Member of the New York Chapter of the Association
of Family and Conciliation Courts and a past President.
Within the New York State Judiciary has served on the Judicial Institute
Committee, the Family
Court Advisory and Rules Committee and the Family Law Curriculum
Development Committee. Judge Duggan is a frequent lecturer at International,
National and State judicial and legal programs. He teaches at the National Judicial College and on-line at the University of Nevada’s
Masters Degree Program for Justice Management. Judge Duggan is widely published and
also writes a monthly column for the Bar Association Newsletter on topical
issues on the History of the Law.
Judge Duggan was born on the Seneca Indian
Reservation in
In 2007 and 2011, the New York State Family Court Judges Association named
Judge Duggan the Family Court Judge of the Year. In the history of the New York State
Family Court, Judge Duggan is the only two-time recipient of this award.
Last
updated January 5, 2012
Links to other
sites, or links to this site from any other sites, do not imply any endorsement
of, or relationship with, such other sites.