John B. Drenning

Background

Drenning, John B. was born on April 5, 1937 in Mount Kisco, New York, United States. Son of John B. and Frances B. (Ceasrine) Drenning.

Education

University of Buffalo (Bachelor of Science, 1961). Cornell University (Bachelor of Laws, 1964).

Career

Worked at Phillips, Lytle, Hitchcock, Blaine & Huber (Buffalo, NY) specializing in General Practice. Corporations, Litigation, Trust and Estates, Tax, Labor Relations, Real Estate, Banking, Commercial, Municipal Finance, Bankruptcy Reorganization, Antitrust, Products Liability, Insurance Coverage, Immigration, Customs, Environmental and Energy Law. Admitted to the bar, 1965, New York.

Confidential Law Assistant to Justice of Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, 1965-1966. Founded in 1834 in Buffalo as the law office of Orsamus H. Marshall, Phillips, Lytle counts among its former partners several prominent individuals including President Grover Cleveland. Through its expansion into several offices and the development of new practice areas, the Firm has grown into a position of prominence in the northeastern United States and the province of Ontario.

Achievements

• Bar: New York 1965.

Membership

Board of directors, secretary Western New York Technology Development Center, Amherst, New York, since 1985;board directors Buffalo State College Foundation, since 1988. Member American Bar Association, New York Bar Association, Erie County Bar Association, Saturn Club.

Connections

Married Barbara Shields, June 29,1965. Children: Elizabeth, John.

Father:

John B. Drenning

Mother:

Frances B. (Ceasrine) Drenning

Spouse:

Barbara Shields

child:

John Drenning

child:

Elizabeth Drenning