Barbara McDowell Foundation Approves New Advisory Committee Member
The Barbara McDowell Foundation announces the approval by its Board of Directors of the addition of new Advisory Committee member, Vince Gentile, on Tuesday, December 13, 2022.
After 30 years as a partner at an AmLaw 100 law firm, Vince began his own law firm, concentrating on serving individuals and closely held businesses. For more than 20 years, he has been certified as a trial attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, a designation held by less than 2% of the New Jersey bar. He is an AAA arbitrator for commercial and consumer cases and has also served for many years as a court-appointed mediator and arbitrator in the New Jersey state courts.
In 2013, he was appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court to its Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct. He has also served on the District VII Fee Arbitration Panel and the District VIII Ethics Committee and has been appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court to conduct attorney ethics investigations.
Throughout his career he has been engaged in pro bono work, and for several years he served as chair of a national law firm’s pro bono program. He is currently representing several Afghan asylum seekers. Between 1983 and 1989, Vince was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of New Jersey, and served as Chief of the Civil Division under then U.S. Attorney Samuel A. Alito, Jr. Before that, he worked at a large New York City law firm and clerked for a judge on New York’s highest court, the New York Court of Appeals.
Vince holds a J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review. He has a B.A., magna cum laude, from Cornell University, College of Arts & Sciences.
About the Advisory Committee
The Foundation’s Advisory Committee assists the Grant Committee of the Board of Directors in the review and selection of the Foundation’s annual grant recipients.