BRUCE A. HUBBARD. ESQ. is the Principal of Bruce A. Hubbard, P. C., an independent law firm where he has practiced law in New York City.
He has specialties in bank financings, commercial litigation, contracts, real estate, and general corporate practice. He was a Senior Associate at Davis, Polk & Wardwell in the corporate banking department, concentrating on Municipal Finance; and prior to that he was General Counsel and Secretary of Northville Industries, Inc. a privately held petroleum products throughput, transshipment, storage, pipeline and trading company based in Melville, New York. Mr. Hubbard is a graduate of Rutgers College, as a Member of Cap & Skull, the Senior Honorary, and a graduate of the Harvard Law School as a Huber Foundation Fellow. He was a Member of the American, National, New York State, New York City and Metropolitan Black Bar Associations. He is a former Member of the governing House of Delegates, of the New York State Bar Association and a former Member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association. He is a Member, appointed by the Justices of the Appellate Division of the First Judicial Department in New York City, of the Committee on Character and Fitness, which is required to review and interview all prospective attorneys for admission to the Bar in New York City. He was also Administrator of the Independent Judicial Screening Panel in New York County for Justices recommended by the New York County Democratic Committee for elevation to the New York State Supreme Court. Mr. Hubbard was recently appointed in 2019 as a Special Master for the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department to mediate appeals to the Appellate Division by Presiding Justice Acosta.
He is a former Chair of the Police Commission in Stamford, Connecticut, a former Trustee of the King & Low-Heywood Thomas School in Stamford, Connecticut; a former Board Chair and Trustee of The Community Service Society of New York, Inc.; a former Executive Committee Member and Member of the Board of Managers of the Episcopal Mission Society of the Diocese of New York; a former Chair of the Education Committee and Trustee of the Chi Psi Fraternity Educational Trust; a former Member of the Board of Directors of the Fund for Modern Courts; and a former Executive Committee Member and Member of the Board of Overseers of the Rutgers University Foundation.Mr. Hubbard is also a former Trustee of Union Baptist Church in Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. Hubbard is a former Member of the Board of Directors and a Member of 100 Black Men of Stamford, Inc.
Mr. Hubbard was the founding Chair of the 100 Black Men of Stamford, Inc./Infinite Scholars Annual College Fair; and the founding Chair of the Partnership Community Service Project between 100 Black Men of Stamford, Inc., Union Baptist Church and Jack & Jill of America, Inc. Stamford/Norwalk Chapter, which once annually provides food and a hot meal to clients at three Connecticut shelters. Mr. Hubbard is admitted to the Bar of the States of Massachusetts and New York, the U. S. District Courts of the Eastern District and Southern District of New York and the U. S. Supreme Court.
