New Rochelle resident, two others, join Legal Services of the Hudson Valley Board of Directors

Alfred E. Donnellan, Legal Services of the Hudson Valley’s (LSHV) Board Chair and Managing Partner at DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederker LLP, announced the addition of three new members to the White Plains-based organization’s Board of Directors.

Jean Anderson, (Pictured) a New Rochelle resident, is a long-time community advocate and civil-servant. Most recently, she was a substitute teacher at Daniel Webster Elementary School in New Rochelle. But for most of her career, she worked for Westchester County’s Department of Social Services as an Eligibility Examiner and prior to that, a Quality Control Inspector. Ms. Anderson also worked for Westchester County Opportunity Program as an Outreach Worker for the Community Alcoholism Program, as well as the New York State Division for Youth as a Weekend House Parent. She also has extensive community service experience including Meals on Wheels, NAACP New Rochelle Youth Bureau Commission, Interreligious Council of New Rochelle, Westchester Council of Women, and more. Ms. Anderson has a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the College of New Rochelle.

Sean Brady is a Private Wealth Manager and Supervisor at Clarfeld Financial Advisors in Tarrytown. Mr. Brady has been with Clarfeld, a private wealth management firm and multi-family office managing over $5 billion in assets throughout New York City & the Tri-state area, since 2010. At the firm he serves as an investment advisor and financial planner to high net worth individuals, and is responsible for the training and development of junior planners. Prior to Clarfeld, he was with Avalon Partners, Inc. in New York City. Mr. Brady graduated with honors from Queens College and is a resident of Astoria, Queens.

Sidney S. Rosdeitcher, is of counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison LLP in New York City, where he was a litigation partner until his retirement. He also served as a lawyer in the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Department of Justice and an assistant to a Commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Rosdeitcher is currently a member of the amicus committees of the American Bar Association’s Section on Civil Rights and Social Justice and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law and teaches a constitutional law seminar for undergraduates at Columbia University. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Harvard Law Review, and received his B.A. from Columbia University. He is a resident of New York City.

LSHV’s CEO, Barbara Finkelstein, said of the trio, “We are delighted to welcome them to the team at Legal Services of the Hudson Valley, and are excited for their leadership and vision in support of our efforts to provide free civil legal services to tens of thousands of residents in the lower and mid-Hudson Valley each year.”

These three Board members join the organization as it embarks on its 50th Anniversary celebration this year. Founded as Westchester & Putnam Legal Services, today LSHV’s attorneys assist poor, low-income, disabled and/or vulnerable individuals and families across the seven counties of the lower and mid-Hudson Valley (Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, Ulster and Sullivan). They advocate for and represent people with nowhere else to turn in hearings, negotiations and court proceedings across a wide range of urgent legal needs including: children’s law and advocacy, elder law, domestic violence, disability law (physical, mental and developmental disabilities), housing emergencies (eviction and foreclosure prevention), healthcare, consumer fraud and more.

For more information about LSHV, please visit its website www.lshv.org.