Edward S. Rudofsky
Ed Rudofsky is the General Counsel and Congregational Standards Chair of USCJ, and a non-voting lay member of the RA Committee on Jewish Law & Standards.
Ed is currently an attorney in private practice in Melville, New York. Previously, he was a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice; an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Deputy Chief of that office’s Civil Division; and a senior partner in Zane and Rudofsky. He also serves as a Mediator for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York; General Counsel and a member of the Board of Directors of Richmond Community Services; and as the President of the national First Amendment Lawyers Association.
Ed resides with his wife Roz in Melville, NY, where he is a member (and past president) of the Melville Jewish Center. Roz and Ed have two grown children: Lee, a U.S. district judge for the eastern district of Arkansas; and Gayle, an attending neuroradiologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York; and five grandchildren.
