Madeleine F. Grossman (Fried)
Undergrad college/major: Government.
Affiliations at Cornell: Sigma Delta Tau.
Advanced degrees: J.D.,
Career/occupation: Principal, Levett Rockwood PC (former chair
of litigation group); Panel of Neutrals, American Arbitration Association.
Honors and awards: Fellow, American Bar Foundation.
Important affiliations: Former counsel to Federal Grievance Committee, District of Connecticut; Former chair, Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel, District of Connecticut; Former Executive Committee, Federal Practice Section, Connecticut Bar Association.
Marital status: Married.
Spouse: Edward Grossman ’59.
Children: Jill Grossman Denowitz ’85, Lewis Grossman, Peter Grossman.
Grandchildren: Eight – between 7 and 19 years old.
Outstanding Cornell memory: I can’t single out one.
How has your life differed from what you expected? When I left Cornell I expected to be a well-educated wife and mother who was active in the PTA and League of Women Voters and who took a lot of continuing education courses. Instead, after my kids had all started school, I went to law school, became a corporate litigator, worked extremely hard, loved it and am still doing it.
Personal reflections: I met my future husband in the Co-op while I was buying my books for the fall semester of my sophomore year. We will celebrate our 50th anniversary in 2011. Among my dearest and closest friends today, are those I met at Cornell. The world has changed enormously in the past 50 years, far more than we could have imagined in 1961, and my own life took a direction I had not anticipated. Nevertheless, these relationships born at Cornell have endured and flourished. No wonder I get teary every time I hear the alma mater.