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Anne Swern '80 Awarded City Bar's Prestigious Thomas E. Dewey Medal


Anne J. Swern '80 was awarded The Association of the Bar of the City of New York's prestigious Thomas E. Dewey Medal in 2006, which recognizes outstanding prosecutors that have made significant contributions to public service. Swern is the First Assistant District Attorney in the Kings County District Attorney's Office and supervises more than 1,000 attorneys and support staff members in their prosecutorial and administrative functions.

She heads the highly successful and nationally acclaimed Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison Program (DTAP) - the first prosecution-run program in the country to divert prison-bound felony offenders into residential drug treatment. She is also the senior executive in charge of three substance abuse treatment courts, the Red Hook Community Justice Center, and the Mental Health Court. As the District Attorney's Office's executive in charge of mental health issues in the criminal justice system, she also supervises the Treatment Alternatives for the Dually Diagnosed Program, which diverts mentally ill defendants into treatment.

Over her 26-year career as a prosecutor, Swern has held several key positions in the District Attorney's Office, including serving as the Chief of the Criminal Court Bureau where she supervised more than 60,000 misdemeanor criminal cases each year, and as Chief of the Early Case Assessment Bureau, where she supervised the intake and screening of more than 100,000 cases per year.

For her tremendous commitment to public service, Swern has also been recognized as the Humanitarian of the Year in 1999 by the Education and Assistance Corporation and as the Prosecutor of the Year in 2000 by the Kings County Criminal Bar Association.

Since 1997, Swern has taught the Prosecutors Clinic as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School, imparting her vast knowledge on hundreds of BLS students. She has also guest lectured at the New York State Judicial Institute, Fordham and Columbia University Law Schools and the University of London in England.

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