Warren Heilbronner, Esq, Survivor
Warren H. Heilbronner is a practicing attorney associated with the law firm of Boylan, Brown, Code, Vigdor & Wilson, LLP., as Of Counsel. He is admitted to practice in New York, Florida, the Western District of New York and the United States Supreme Court. He specializes in the area of Trusts & Estates and also serves as a Chapter 7 Trustee in the Rochester Office of the United States Trustee program.
He is the member of the Executive Committee of the Trust & Estates Section of the New York Bar Association, serving as Vice-Chair of the Surrogate’s Court Committee and a member of the Committee of the Elderly and Disabled (former chair). In the local Bar Association he serves on the Elder Law Committee and the Bankruptcy Committee.
Mr. Heilbronner also serves on several religious and civic organizations. He is a past President, member and/or Ex-Officio member the Board of Trustees of Temple B’rith Kodesh since 1968, serving as a director of the Temple B’rith Kodesh , and as a member of the Finance and Social Action Committees. On the national level he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Union for Reform Judaism, now serving in his 21st year, with service on the following committees: Executive Committee of the Department of Jewish Family Concerns; Development Committee; Alumni Committee; New Congregations Committee; National Commission on Rabbinic-Congregational Relations and Commission on Social Action. In the civic area, he is a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Community Federation, serving on the Executive Committee of CHAI (Committee on Holocaust Awareness & Information); the Investment Sub-Committee and the Community Relations Committee.
As a member of CHAI and as a Holocaust survivor, he speaks to students in middle and high schools, colleges and various religious groups on the history of the Holocaust and its relevance in today’s world.
He is also a member of the Board of Governors of Hillel of Rochester Area Colleges.
He is a Past President and Honorary member of the Board of Directors of the ARC of Monroe County, serving on its Guardianship and Finance Committees.
On the state level, he is Chairman of the NYSARC Trust and Chairman of the Managers of the Community Trusts, currently managing over $21 million dollars for over 2500 accounts of persons with disabilities, many of whom are able to remain in their homes rather that having to go into nursing homes. It is the largest private-operated program of this type in the country.
His honors include being the first recipient of the Pro Bono Service Award in the Senior Lawyers category, awarded in 2008 by the New York State Bar Association to one attorney in New York State over the age of 65 for volunteer service in the profession; recipient of the Hodgson-Jacobs Legal Award of NYSARC for 2006, awarded to an attorney in New York State for legal services rendered to persons with disabilities; recipient of the Etz Chayem award in 2007 and the Ezra award also in 2007, from Temple B’rith Kodesh; and winner of the Benjamin Goldstein Young Leadership award of the Jewish Community Federation (1964). He has been listed in “Best Lawyers in America” (Trusts & Estates area of practice), since its inception in 1983.
Mr. Heilbronner was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1932, escaping with his parents and brother in March, 1939. He is a graduate of Perry High School, Cornell University and Columbia Law School.
He is married to the former Joyce Aroeste (1961). They have three sons---Jerome, a Systems Annalist with Raytheon Corp.; Lawrence, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice-President of Operations at Canandaigua National Bank; and Kevin, insurance agent for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. and public address announcer for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association. They also have 6 grand children.