The Hon. Lucy Bernier (third from left) is shown with Del-Chen-O Co-founder and President Kathleen S. Campbell, President Elect Alicia Rohan and Vice President Willa Payne. (Photo by Brenna P. Baker)

Del-Chen-O Women’s Bar Association Celebrates Judge Lucy Bernier

ONEONTA

Del-Chen-O Women’s Bar Association hosted a successful dinner event at Bella Michael’s Restaurant in Oneonta on the evening of May 25, to honor Judge Lucy Bernier for her outstanding career of firsts in the legal profession. Judge Bernier spent 18 years as the first woman elected to the Oneonta City Court Bench. Her other important roles included partnering with her mother to form Pantaleoni & Bernier, a mother/daughter law firm, believed to be the first in New York; serving for six years as the first woman Oneonta city prosecutor and spending six years as an assistant district attorney for Otsego County.