In Loving Memory
The Campaign for Stuyvesant/ Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc.
P.O. 2626
Peter Stuyvesant Station
New York, NY 10009
Office
610 West 115th Street
New York, NY 10025-7771
(212) 222-9112
Jeff Kestler, Esq. ’64
Vice-Chairman, Mountainside, New Jersey
Jeff is an Associate General Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel at Columbia University. He is the Chief Counsel of the Patent & Licensing Group and serves as the University Compliance Officer. Jeff was a corporate attorney with AT&T and Lucent Technologies for two decades. Before that,, he was a partner in a Washington, D.C. law firm and a Judge Advocate in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was an Adjunct Professor of Trial practice at the Georgetown University Law Center and is the author of the legal text, Questioning Techniques and Tactics (West Publishing 3d Ed. 1999).
He is a former Chairman of the Trial and Appellate Practice Committee of the Federal Bar Association.
At Stuyvesant, Jeff won two fencing team (1962 & 1963) and one individual City Championship (1963). Jeff was named Athlete of the Year at Stuyvesant in 1964.
He went on to fence at Columbia where he was the foilist on the 1968 NCAA Championship Fencing Team.
He attended the London School of Economics and received his law degree in 1971 from the NYU School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar and an editor of the Law Review.
Jeff fenced in the military and was the Founder and Captain of the United States Marine Corps Fencing Team that won the National Foil Team Championship in 1974.
Jeff lives with his wife, Patti, and his stepdaughter, Lindsay, in Mountainside, New Jersey. He has two grown sons, Jeremy and Justin.