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Paul Ciminelli
Paul Ciminelli
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Paul V. Ciminelli. Esq. has almost four decades of successful and wide-ranging legal, business and government experience. During his professional career, he has been responsible for the start-up of successful businesses in the Western New York region including manufacturing, family entertainment, real estate development and consulting. Mr. Ciminelli is an accomplished attorney with extensive litigation and business law experience. Paul began his legal career as a prosecutor in the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office quickly, rising to the Major Felony Bureau. Additionally, Paul serves as Counsel to the Sheriff of Monroe County. Prior to assuming his current duties with the Sheriff, he dedicated the significant percentage of his practice to representing small business owners and their families in every facet of business from start-up to disposition. In recent years Paul’s practice has involved numerous 2nd Amendment and Pistol Permit cases. He has been a regular practitioner in Courts throughout the State protecting individuals’ rights to keep and bear arms.
Paul Ciminelli served in the United States Army for thirty years achieving the rank of Colonel in 2005 and retiring in 2011. In those thirty years, Colonel Ciminelli served in positions of increased command and staff responsibility from Platoon Leader to Battalion Commander and Chief of Civil Military Operations, 8th Army Republic of Korea. He has served overseas more than a dozen times including multiple combat tours. He is an expert on multi-national, interagency, and joint operations.
Mr. Ciminelli is serving or has served on numerous professional organization and not-for-profit boards throughout the region and nation. Today, Mr. Ciminelli focuses much of his volunteer efforts on Veterans’ issues affecting the more than fifty thousand Veterans in his community. In 2010, he was appointed by the County Executive to serve as Chairman of the Monroe County Veterans Advisory Board. In 2011, Paul Ciminelli was awarded the inaugural Veterans Business Champion Award by the Rochester Regional Veterans Business Council. In 2013 he received the Excellence in Law-Unsung Legal Heroes Award for his pro-bono work for Veterans in Western New York. In 2014, he was awarded the Veterans Service Award by the Vietnam Veterans of America. In 2021 he was awarded the In House Counsel—Legal Excellence Award by the Rochester Business Journal and The Daily Record.
Mr. Ciminelli received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Rochester, a Master of Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College and a Juris Doctor Degree from Rutgers University. He has served on the faculty of the NATO School, teaching throughout Eastern and Western Europe, adjunct faculty of the United States Army Command & General Staff College, adjunct professor in the Homeland Security Management Institute at Monroe Community College lecturing on Terrorism and Homeland Security issues.
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Paul Ciminelli
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About
Paul V. Ciminelli. Esq. has almost four decades of successful and wide-ranging legal, business and government experience. During his professional career, he has been responsible for the start-up of successful businesses in the Western New York region including manufacturing, family entertainment, real estate development and consulting. Mr. Ciminelli is an accomplished attorney with extensive litigation and business law experience. Paul began his legal career as a prosecutor in the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office quickly, rising to the Major Felony Bureau. Additionally, Paul serves as Counsel to the Sheriff of Monroe County. Prior to assuming his current duties with the Sheriff, he dedicated the significant percentage of his practice to representing small business owners and their families in every facet of business from start-up to disposition. In recent years Paul’s practice has involved numerous 2nd Amendment and Pistol Permit cases. He has been a regular practitioner in Courts throughout the State protecting individuals’ rights to keep and bear arms.
Paul Ciminelli served in the United States Army for thirty years achieving the rank of Colonel in 2005 and retiring in 2011. In those thirty years, Colonel Ciminelli served in positions of increased command and staff responsibility from Platoon Leader to Battalion Commander and Chief of Civil Military Operations, 8th Army Republic of Korea. He has served overseas more than a dozen times including multiple combat tours. He is an expert on multi-national, interagency, and joint operations.
Mr. Ciminelli is serving or has served on numerous professional organization and not-for-profit boards throughout the region and nation. Today, Mr. Ciminelli focuses much of his volunteer efforts on Veterans’ issues affecting the more than fifty thousand Veterans in his community. In 2010, he was appointed by the County Executive to serve as Chairman of the Monroe County Veterans Advisory Board. In 2011, Paul Ciminelli was awarded the inaugural Veterans Business Champion Award by the Rochester Regional Veterans Business Council. In 2013 he received the Excellence in Law-Unsung Legal Heroes Award for his pro-bono work for Veterans in Western New York. In 2014, he was awarded the Veterans Service Award by the Vietnam Veterans of America. In 2021 he was awarded the In House Counsel—Legal Excellence Award by the Rochester Business Journal and The Daily Record.
Mr. Ciminelli received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Rochester, a Master of Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College and a Juris Doctor Degree from Rutgers University. He has served on the faculty of the NATO School, teaching throughout Eastern and Western Europe, adjunct faculty of the United States Army Command & General Staff College, adjunct professor in the Homeland Security Management Institute at Monroe Community College lecturing on Terrorism and Homeland Security issues.
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