Edna Sussman

Edna Sussman is an attorney and is of counsel to Hoguet Newman & Regal LLP in New York City specializing in commercial disputes and matters concerning environmental and energy matters. Ms. Sussman started her career at the internationally recognized New York City firm of White& Case where she was a litigation partner. Ms. Sussman has an active practice as a neutral assisting parties with a variety of alternative dispute resolution methodologies. She serves as an arbitrator on the Commercial and Energy Panels of the American Arbitration Association and on the arbitration panels of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, the Permanent Court of Justice in the Hague, the National Association of Securities Dealers and the New York Stock Exchange. She also serves as a mediator on the Mediation Panels of the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the New York State Supreme Court Commercial Division.

Active in bar association activities and a frequent lecturer and author, Edna is working to advance sustainability objectives through the legal community as well as through her work with Action for Tomorrow’s Environment. Edna is currently Chair of the Committee on Renewable Energy Resources of the Section of Environment Energy and Resources of the American Bar Association and as a vice chair of the Dispute Resolution Committee of the International Section of that bar association. Edna is also currently Chair of the Energy Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and chair of the Emissions Trading subcommittee of the International Dispute Resolution Committee of that bar association.

Edna previously served as executive director of Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, Inc. (FCWC), a not-for profit founded in 1965. Believing that the education of others is a critical step in transforming behavior, Edna engaged in extensive public education on a broad variety of environmental concerns. Her educational initiatives included writing numerous articles, organizing a series of conferences, speaking before many civic groups, expanding environmental outreach to the business community and the senior citizen community and founding the Westchester Environment Student Council, a multi-school student group that engages in advocacy training, stewardship and environmental education. Simultaneously pursuing political solutions, Edna successfully engaged the Westchester County legislature and the County Executive on many issues including the passage of the pesticide neighbor notification law, expanding attention and action with respect to a host of energy related issues, and focusing on the need to eliminate building incinerators. She has continued the work she started there as the chair of the Sustainable Westchester Task Force which developed ”SUSTAINABLE WESTCHESTER: A Community Partnership - A Model for Implementing a County-Wide Sustainability Plan”.

Edna serves as a board member and chair of the policy committee of the Westchester Chapter of the League of Conservation Voters, as an executive board member of Environmental Advocates of New York, and as a board member of the Westchester Historical Society, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and the Kitchawan Institute

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