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Spitzer School of Architecture names former governor Eliot Spitzer honorary chair
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The Spitzer School of Architecture names Eliot Spitzer, former district attorney and governor of New York, honorary chair to the Dean's Advisory Council.
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at CCNY announced that Eliot Spitzer, one-time governor and twice-elected attorney general of New York, has been given an honorary chair to the Dean’s Advisory Council of the school bearing his parents’ names.
“I am delighted to welcome Eliot Spitzer to my Advisory Council,” said Marta Gutman, Spitzer School dean. “Like his parents, he brings a lifelong commitment to public education. As Mr. Spitzer told me, ‘Few things are more important than providing a public, low-cost education to those who want to learn, work, and move all of society forward.’”
Spitzer was born and raised in New York. He graduated from the Horace Mann School, Princeton University, and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the “Harvard Law Review.” After clerking for Federal District Court Judge Robert W. Sweet, Spitzer practiced at Paul, Weiss and then joined the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. While there, he rose to serve as chief of the Labor Racketeering Unit and successfully prosecuted some of the most senior members of the Gambino organized crime family.
After several years in private practice, he was elected attorney general of New York in 1998 and was re-elected in 2002. His prosecutions in the areas of financial fraud, environmental protection and civil rights set a new standard for law enforcement, and in 2002 “Time Magazine” named him “Crusader of the Year.” “60 Minutes” dubbed him the “Sheriff of Wall Street,” and the “Financial Times” named him “Man of the Year.”
He was elected governor of New York in 2006. His administration restructured New York’s educational and healthcare finance systems. Since 2008, he has served as an anchor on CNN’s prime time show ‘In the Arena,” hosted “Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer” on Current TV, taught as a professor at CCNY and been a regular contributor to “Slate Magazine.” He now runs Spitzer Enterprises, a real estate development firm founded by his father.
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Dean’s Advisory Council Members
Eliot Spitzer, honorary chair
Joseph Fleischer, B.S. ’65, B.Arch ’66, co-chair
Carlos Cardoso, B.S. ’92, co-chair
Venesa Alicea-Chuqui, B.Arch ’05
John Cetra, B.Arch ’76
Alan Hantman, B.S. ’65, B.Arch ’66, MUP ’79
Edmund Hollander
Joan Krevlin
Carol Kurth, B.Arch ’81
Fern Lan Siew, M.L.A ’15
Jonathan Marvel
Nancy Ruddy
Frank Sciame, B.S. ’74
Adi Shamir-Baron
Charles Shorter
Claire Weisz
Thea Klapwald
e: tklapwald@ccny.cuny.edu