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Board of Trustees Officers: Vice Chair
Robert J. Miron
'59 Management
Vice Chair
Elected 2002
Robert Miron is chairman and CEO of Advance/Newhouse Communications, which manages more than two million subscribers in Bright House Networks cable television systems in and around Tampa Bay, Central Florida, Indianapolis, Birmingham, Bakersfield, and Detroit, along with several smaller systems in Alabama and the Florida panhandle. Since graduating from
Syracuse University in 1959, he has worked for Newhouse in various capacities within the radio, television, and cable fields. He has been the CEO of Newhouse cable television interests since 1974.
Miron was elected to the board of directors of the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) in 1983, served as an officer and member of the executive committee for a number of years, and is also a past NCTA chairman. He has served on the board of directors of Discovery Communications Inc. since 1985. He also serves on the board of Time Warner Telecom Inc., Walter Kaitz Foundation, and C-SPAN. In addition, he serves on the executive committee of CableLabs, C-SPAN, and Cable in the Classroom, as well as the management committee of Road Runner. He is a current co-chairman of the board of Cable in the Classroom.
Miron received the New York State Cable Television Chairman’s Award in 1987, the National Cable Television Association President’s Award in 1990, the NCTA Distinguished Vanguard Award for Leadership in 2001, and the Cable Television Public Affairs Association President’s Award in 1995. He was elected to the Cable Television Hall of Fame in 2001. He was inducted into Broadcasting & Cable’s Hall of Fame in 2002.
Miron’s community activities include past president of the Syracuse Jewish Community Center, former vice president of Temple Adath Yeshurun, former board member of the Syracuse Jewish Federation, and member of the Metropolitan Development Association. He was the Temple Adath Citizen of the Year in 2000.
For Syracuse University, he is a past president of the Varsity Club board of directors, a member of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications advisory board, and a member of the Society of Fellows. He was awarded the Letterman of Distinction Award in 1987. He serves on the Executive Committee as well as the Budget and Institutional Advancement committees of the Board. Miron and his wife, Diane, have three married children, Naomi, Steve, and Lisa, and eight grandchildren.
Deryck A. Palmer
'78 Arts and Sciences
Vice Chair
Elected 2004
Deryck A. Palmer is a partner in the business, finance and restructuring department of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, established in 1792 and one of the world's leading international law firms with offices in New York, London, Charlotte, Washington, and Beijing. He concentrates his practice in the representation of debtors as well as creditors under chapter 11 bankruptcy and has handled a wide variety of workout, corporate restructuring, and bankruptcy matters. Prior to joining CWT, Palmer was a partner in the Business Finance & Restructuring Department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. He received a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School.
Palmer serves as the co-vice chair of the American Bar Association's Business Bankruptcy Committee's Healthcare Working Group; a member of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Bankruptcy and Committee on Courts and the Community; and a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He is an adjunct professor of law at New York Law School and co-author of History of Bankruptcy Law in the Second Circuit (Matthew Bender and Company, 1995) and Restructuring: The Search for Value in a Troubled Enterprise (Euromoney Books 1993).
Palmer is a member of the Bureau of National Affairs Advisory Board for the Bankruptcy Law Reporter and sits on the board of directors of Boys and Girls Harbor Inc.; Insol International; Greater N ew York Councils, Boy Scouts of America; Maplewood Village Alliance; the Cleveland Clinic Foundation; and the Coalition for Consumer Bankruptcy Debtor Education.
For Syracuse University, Palmer serves on the Executive and Student Affairs committees of the Board. He was awarded the Chancellor's citation for Exceptional Achievement in 1995. He and his wife Carmen, are the parents of Grant.
Judith G. Seinfeld
‘56 Education
Vice Chair
Elected 2002
Judith Greenberg Seinfeld is president of Heritage Management Company LLC, a real estate investment, development, and management company that has been in business for three generations since 1924 and is based in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She has been involved in the purchase, sale, land use planning, and financing of office and industrial properties throughout the country since 1989. Prior to joining Heritage, she was founder and president of Judith Greenberg Gallery, a jewelry design and manufacturing company whose creations were displayed and sold at art galleries throughout the United States from 1970 through the late 1980s. She is the former principal of Balenciaga Perfumes International and was senior vice president in charge of sales for the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada.
Seinfeld received a master’s degree from Columbia University. Throughout her career, she has devoted much of her time to various community organizations in New Jersey and has been honored for her work. In New Jersey, she sits on the regional board of the Valley National Bank, and she has served as president of the Women’s Division of the United Jewish Appeal Federation of Northern New Jersey and as vice president of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Bergen County. In Massachusetts, she is a board member of the Nantucket AIDS Network and a board member of the Theater Workshop of Nantucket, as well as a trustee at the Atheneum, Massachusetts oldest library, where she has also performed on stage. Judy has been an avid supporter of the Sunstone Cancer Support Foundation in Arizona.
For Syracuse University, Seinfeld is a member of the Executive, Board Organization and Nominating, Academic Affairs and Facilities committees as well as a member of the Board of Advisors for the School of Education. She is also a member of the Chancellor’s Council and the Society of Fellows. She has endowed scholarships for students dealing with adversity, in addition to her endowment of the Judith Seinfeld Distinguished Fellows Prize, which recognizes excellence, creativity, and originality in any field of endeavor. She is mother to Jeffrey and Steven Greenberg, who reside in New York and New Jersey.
For the Board, she serves as a member of the Academic Affairs Committee, the Facilities Committee, the Executive Committee and the Board Organization and Nominating Committee.
Richard L. Thompson
'67 M.A. Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Vice Chair
Elected 2001
In addition to earning his M.A. degree in political science from SU's Maxwell School, Thompson received a Juris Doctor degree from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University in 1975, and a B.A. cum laude in history and political science from SUNY Albany in 1966.
Thompson is a member of the American Bar Association and is admitted to practice before the District of Columbia Bar Association and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Thompson has been involved in numerous civic and charitable activities. He is past chairman of the board of directors of Ford's Theatre. He is past chairman of the Governance Committee and member of the Board of Directors of Meridian International Center. He is also a member of the Federal City Council. He has served on the Board of Governors of the Bryce Harlow Foundation, the Board of Director's for the D.C. Hospice, the Executive Committee of the Congressional Award Foundation, and the advisory boards of the Whitman School of Management and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
For Syracuse University, Thompson serves on the Washington D.C. Advisory Board. He has previously served on the Whitman School of Management Advisory Board and the Maxwell School Advisory Board. In 2000, Thompson and his wife, Catherine Jean Terry Õ66, provided significant funding for the Remembrance Scholarship given each year in memory of those Syracuse University students killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. He is a member of the Executive and Budget Committees and serves as the chair of the Administrative Operations Committee. He and his wife are the parents of Kristin Anne Thompson Bonacci and Catherine Elizabeth Thompson Power, and have two grandchildren.
