Dean, William J.

William J. Dean, a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School, is a lawyer, writer and civic participant.

As a lawyer, he has been deeply involved in the life of New York City, serving as executive director of Volunteers of Legal Service, an organization providing pro bono civil legal services to benefit poor people in New York.

As a volunteer, he has served as chairman of The Correctional Association of New York, a civic organization with statutory authority to visit and report on conditions in New York State prisons; as chairman of The New York Society Library, the oldest libr...