The 2020 Syracuse Law Honors Awards Recipients at the Syracuse University College of Law include NAFUSA member Professor Emeritus Thomas J. Maroney L’63. Here is the announcement from Syracuse Law:

 

 

 

Thomas J. Maroney is a Professor of Law Emeritus (2011). He is a magna cum laude graduate of Syracuse University (B.A., 1961) and the College of Law (LL.B., 1963) and a member of the honor societies Phi Kappa Phi, the Order of the Coif, and the Justinian Society.

 

Maroney’s interest in history and government led him to major in political science in college, concentrate on public law courses in law school, and pursue a a career teaching and writing about public law, emphasizing Constitutional law and the related subjects of federal jurisdiction, federal criminal law, civil rights, and Constitutional criminal procedure. Among his activities in law school, Maroney was student Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Survey of New York Law and a Notes Editor for the Syracuse Law Review.

 

After a research fellowship at Michigan Law and practicing law with White and Case in New York City, Maroney returned to his alma mater to teach, beginning in the 1967-1968 school year (one of his students in the legislation course was a young man named Joseph R. Biden Jr. L’68). Maroney also has been a visiting professor at the Cornell and Colorado law schools, and a lecturer at the US Naval War College. Maroney is a member of the New York Bar and is admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court and the state and federal trial and appellate courts in the State of New York .

 

Maroney has been the Assistant New York State Attorney General in Charge of the Syracuse Regional Office (1979-1981) and the US Attorney for the 32-county Northern District of New York (1994-1999). In 1983 he ran unsuccessfully for Onondaga County District Attorney, losing to the incumbent by 622 votes out of 134,000 votes cast. Maroney has long been a Labor Arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, the NY Public Employment Relations Board (and by direct appointment of numerous parties), and he has taught Alternative Dispute Resolution and Negotiation at the College of Law.

 

Maroney also has been active in our community as a volunteer attorney for and President of the local ACLU chapter; a 15-year member of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary serving as Commander of Flotilla 2-1, Phoenix, NY, and Division Operations Officer, Division II, 9th District, Eastern Region; and a member of and Fire Police Officer for the Fayetteville Fire Department.

 

Maroney is married to Dr. Mary Katharine Maroney G’92, a Distinguished Emerita Professor and Director of Nursing at Utica College. He and Dr. Maroney, their children and their siblings hold a total of 14 degrees from Syracuse University. GO ORANGE!