MCBA Trustees 2011-12 MCBA Officers 2011-12
Staff Past Presidents



MCBA Officers 2011-12
John P. Paone, Jr.
President

Paone, Zaleski & Brown
146 Green Street
PO Box 249
Woodbridge, NJ 07095
www.paonezaleski.com
terryb@paonezaleski.com

Admitted to the NJ bar in 1982, John is a senior partner with the Law Offices of Paone, Zaleski & Brown in Woodbridge and Red Bank, practicing divorce and family law.

He was in the first class of attorneys to be certified by the Supreme Court of NJ as a Matrimonial Law Attorney and currently serves as a member of the Matrimonial Committee of the Board on Attorney Certification. With the advent of mandatory continuing legal education in 2010, the NJ Supreme Court appointed John to the newly created Board on Continuing Legal Education.

John is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and President-Elect of the New Jersey Chapter of that organization. He is a past Chair of the NJSBA, Family Law Section and in 2002 received the Section’s Saul Tischler Award for his contributions to the development of family law and the legal profession.

John has been selected as one of the Top 10 "Super Lawyers" in NJ and has been recognized as one of the premier family law attorneys in NJ by the publication The Best Lawyers in America. He has received an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell representing the highest recognition in both legal ability and ethical conduct.

In 2008, the Bar Association’s Family Law Section presented John with the Edward Schoifet Award in recognition of his outstanding work as a leader in the practice of divorce and family law. In 2010, John received the Distinguished Service Award from ICLE for his many years of contributions to legal education in NJ.


732-750-9797

Renee Anthony
President-Elect

155 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Admitted to the New Jersey State and Federal Bar in 1997, Renée Anthony has been a sole practitioner in New Brunswick for over thirteen years concentrating in Criminal, Family, Municipal, Real Estate and Chancery Practice. Ms. Anthony is also an experienced arbitrator for several national Unions and the Government. She also served as Public Defender for Piscataway Township from 2005- 2009.

Renée currently serves as Secretary on the Executive Board of Trustees for Central Jersey Legal Services, Board member of the Middlesex County Bar Foundation, a panelist for the Middlesex County Matrimonial Early Settlement Program, as well as a Judicial Volunteer for Middlesex Vicinage. Renée has served as Chair of the District VIII Ethics Committee, was an active member of Family Law Executive Committee for the New Jersey State Bar Association and was member of Middlesex County JPAC. She is active member of the American Bar Association, National Bar Association, New Jersey State Bar Association and the Middlesex County Bar Association.

In October 2010, Mrs. Anthony was honored by the NAACP with the Johnnie Cochran Legal Award.In her spare time Renée enjoys traveling and spending precious time with her family and friend.


732-565-0056

Tara Auciello
First Vice President

5 Elm Row
PO Box 407
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
tara.auciello@gmail.com

Tara Auciello is a solo practitioner in New Brunswick. She is admitted to practice in NJ and NY. Before opening her solo practice in July 2003, Tara was an associate in the Commercial Litigation department at Bryan Cave LLP in New York, NY.

Tara graduated cum laude from Boston College Law School in 2001. She graduated with majors in Political Science and Religion cum laude from Duke University in 1998. Tara graduated from Rutgers Preparatory School in 1995 after having attended that school since 1982.

Tara is a Past-President of the Middlesex County Bar Foundation and previously served a three year term as Trustee of the Middlesex County Bar Association. She is a Municipal Prosecutor for the Township of Edison and previously served as a Municipal Prosecutor for the City of New Brunswick.  Tara formerly taught as an adjunct instructor in the Paralegal Studies program at Middlesex County College and currently serves as a Trustee for Rutgers Preparatory School. 

Tara is the daughter of MCBA & MCBF Past-President Dennis Auciello.


732-937-5533

Ellen F. Schwartz
Second Vice President

Ramatowski, Spilka & Schwartz
758 Highway 18
East Brunswick, NJ 08816
ellenfschwartz@earthlink.net

Ellen is a partner in the East Brunswick law firm of Ramatowski Spilka & Schwartz and has concentrated her law practice in the area of family law and related matters since 1985. She graduated from Seton Hall University Law School in 1985, having previously received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Dickinson College.

Ellen has served as an Early Settlement Panelist in Middlesex County for the past 20 years, and currently serves as a Trustee on the Middlesex County Bar Foundation. She serves as a volunteer for both Women Aware and Women Helping Women, as well as the Displaced Homemakers Network of New Jersey, for which she was honored as Middlesex County's Volunteer of the Year at the Legislative Awards in Trenton in May of 2003. She also served as the President of the Board of Directors of the YM-YWHA of Raritan Valley from 1996-1999. 

Ellen is an active member of the Association’s Family Law Section and has served on both the Supreme Court District VIII Fee Arbitration Committee and the District VIII Ethics Committee.


732-613-8300

Craig M. Aronow
Treasurer

Rebenack, Aronow, Mascolo & Miller
111 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732.247-3600
caronow@rammlaw.com
www.ramlawnj.com

Craig Aronow is a partner in the New Brunswick law firm of Rebenack Aronow Masolo & Miller, LLP. He is licensed in both NJ and NY. He graduated in 1995 from Pennsylvania State University and earned his JD with honors, Cum Laude, from Quinnipiac University School of Law in 1998. Following law school, Craig served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Alan A. Rockoff, Judge of the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey in Middlesex County (1998-99).

Craig is actively involved in professional organizations at the local, state and national levels. Craig is chair of the NJSBA Solo and Small Firm Section and will be the Middlesex County Trustee on the NJSBA Board. He previously served as a NJ Delegate to the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division and is a barrister in the Joseph Halpern Civil Inn of Court. Craig received the NJSBA Young Lawyer Division’s Award for Service to the Bar in 2008.

Craig serves as Chair of the Association’s Civil Practice Committee and Lawyers Referral Service Committee, and as Attorney-Coach for the Rutgers University Mock Trial Team. He is also past chair of the Association’s Young Lawyers Committee.


732.247.3600

Andrea J. Sullivan
Secretary

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis, LLP
Metro Corporate Campus I
PO Box 5600
Woodbridge, NJ 07095
www.greenbaumlaw.com
asullivan@greenbaumlaw.com

Andrea is a partner with Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis, LLP. Andrea received her AB, cum laude, from Mount Holyoke College and received her JD, with high honors, from Rutgers Law School, Newark, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. After graduation, she served as Law Secretary to the Hon. Erminie Lane Conley, sitting in the Chancery Division, General Equity part, Middlesex County. Following her clerkship, she immediately joined Greenbaum, Rowe where she has practiced throughout her career.

Andrea is named to Best Lawyers in America for Commercial Litigation and holds an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell. Andrea has served as a panelist for many continuing legal education programs, speaking at a number of NJSBA programs and as a panelist for the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education. Andrea received the Robert J. Cirafesi Chancery Practice Award and was named as one of New Jersey's Best 50 Women in Business in 2010.

Since 1991, Andrea has served on the Board of Central Jersey Legal Services Inc. and she is the Immediate Past President of the Board. She is also a past president (2007-08) of the Middlesex County Bar Foundation, where she continues to serve on that Board. She also served for six years as a Trustee of our Bar Association. She has served as both a member and a Chair of the Women Lawyers Section of the MCBA and as a Chair of the Chancery Practice Committee. Since 2001, she has served as the Chair of the Early Settlement Program for the Chancery Practice Committee. Andrea is also a member of the Women in the Profession Section and a past Vice Chair of the Equity Jurisprudence Committee of the State Bar Association.

Andrea is married to Thomas Salomone and has three children: Briana, Thomas and Alexandra.


732.549.5600

Thomas J. Denitzio, Jr.
Immediate Past President

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis, LLP
Metro Corporate Campus I
PO Box 5600
Woodbridge, NJ 07095
www.greenbaumlaw.com
tdenitzio@greenbaumlaw.com

Tom Denitzio is a partner at the Greenbaum firm, where he serves as co-chair of the Real Estate Department and chair of the Banking, Business Financing & Creditors’ Rights Practice Group. He is a graduate, cum laude, of Lafayette College (1972) and received his law degree from Cornell University (1975).

Tom is Co-Chair of the Association’s Real Estate Committee and a member both the American Bar Association and the New Jersey State Bar Association. He is also a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association of New Jersey and an affiliate member of the Metro New Jersey chapter of the Appraisal Institute. He is listed in Chambers USA- America’s Leading Business Lawyers and in The Best Lawyers in America, in the Real Estate practice area. Tom is admitted to practice in NJ and NY. 


732-549-5600

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