Eugene P. Devine, an Albany, NY native, is currently of counsel to the Towne Law Firm, the Public Safety Commissioner for the City of Schenectady and a Mediator/Arbitrator after retiring from the judiciary at the end of 2020. He was elected Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York on November 7th, 2006. In 2014 he was appointed, by the Governor of the State of New York, to the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court, Third Department. He retired on November 30, 2020. He was a member of the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board and Chair of the Appellate Division, Third Department CLE Committee. He was also a member of the American College of Business Court Judges and a member of the Albany County Bar Association Foundation Board. He was the 2013 recipient of the Harold E. Koreman Award given by the New York State Trial Lawyers’ Association in recognition of his commitment to the administration of justice with fairness and compassion. In 1971, he graduated from Villanova University and in 1975, from Albany Law School. Before taking the bench, he was the Public Defender for Albany County overseeing a staff of 35 attorneys and the Chief Attorney for the Albany County Department of Social Services. He was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 1982. Justice Devine has been an Adjunct Professor of Business Law at Siena College and the College of St. Rose. He has also been an instructor for the New York State Bar Association on various topics, in the United States and Canada. He has been a biographee in “Who’s Who in American Law” since 1976. For more than 30 years, he engaged in the private general practice of law specializing in the fields of pension/health insurance, labor, commercial, banking, real estate ( also a 1/3 owner of a title insurance company and represented 3 different lenders as counsel) and criminal law. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Albany Inter-Racial Council, Hospitality House (providing housing and support for those addicted to drugs and alcohol), The Albany Ronald McDonald House (Founding Member), the Board of Associates for St. Peter’s Hospital and Vice Chair of the Albany Medical Center Foundation Board (Founding member of the Children’s Hospital at Albany Med and on air spokesperson and host for their annual telethon). But, his most extensive Board experience came as legal counsel to the International Laborers’ Union, Local 190 Pension ($90,000,000) and Health Care Funds.