David M. Brodsky to Chair 2014 Scarsdale Bowl Committee

David M. Brodsky has been named Chair of the 2014 Scarsdale Bowl Committee. The appointment was announced by Richard Toder, President of the Scarsdale Foundation. As Bowl Committee Chair, Brodsky will head the Scarsdale Bowl nominating committee and the community celebration dinner to be held on Wednesday evening, April 9, 2014 at The Fountainhead in New Rochelle. The Scarsdale Bowl is awarded annually each spring to a Scarsdale resident in recognition of his or her outstanding voluntary public service to the community. The Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the Scarsdale Bowl Committee is Deborah Pekarek.

Mr. Brodsky has been active in a range of community and volunteer organizations. He served as Chair of the Scarsdale Procedure Committee that nominates candidates to run for the Citizens Nominating Committee, Chair of the Joint and Administrative Committees of the School Board Nominating Committee (SBNC) that nominates candidates to run for the SBNC, and three years as a member of the SBNC. He is a member of the board, and incoming Chair, of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy. He previously served as member of the Board and Chair of the Nominating and Development Committees of Equal Justice Works, and Chair of the Board of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest. He is also a member of the Audit Committee of the New York City Bar, a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and a Life Member of the American Law Institute.

Brodsky, through Brodsky ADR LLC, is a mediator and arbitrator of complex commercial and financial disputes, and a Member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals. Formerly a partner at Latham and Watkins LLP, he also served as General Counsel-Americas, Credit Suisse First Boston, and was a partner at. Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Associate Independent Counsel in the Matter of Michael K. Deaver.

He and his wife Stacey, a Trustee of the Village, have been residents of Scarsdale for more than 20 years; their daughters Isabel and Nell graduated from Scarsdale High School and from Colgate and Brown Universities, respectively. David's son Peter resides in Dallas with his wife Lael and three children.

The Scarsdale Bowl is administered by the Scarsdale Foundation which operates as a not-for-profit community foundation to promote the civic welfare. It does so by supporting institutions and individuals in a manner that encourages educational and human development in the community. The Foundation provides need-based financial aid to Scarsdale High School graduates who are entering their sophomore, junior and senior years in college and to children attending the Recreation Department summer day camp. It also administers a number of special purpose funds, and makes grants for various community needs which have included the Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Corps and the Scarsdale/Edgemont Family Counseling Service.