Jean H. Beskin
President

For the past 20 years Jean H. Beskin has been a practicing Court Reporter beginning with the first four years as a Freelance Court Reporter and Per-Diem Suffolk County Grand Jury Reporter. Following that for 14 years Jean was a Hearing Reporter with the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board and the Senior Hearing Reporter of the Hempstead Office supervising 24 Hearing Reporters for the last two years of the 14, and is presently an Official Court Reporter at Nassau County District Court since November of 1998.

In 1997 Jean was elected to the Board of Directors of NYSCRA and was selected as a member of the Legislative Committee. Jean has had extensive experience involving the state tape recording experiments both at the Workers’ Compensation Board, as well as the past experiment at the state court level. In November 1999 Jean was elected to the position of Secretary-Treasurer of NYSCRA.

Jean resides in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, with her husband Ken. Jean also has a daughter Karen, who at the present time is residing in Bayside, Queens, New York with her husband Christian.

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Stephen Zinone, RPR
Vice President

After graduating in 1983 from Rochester School of Machine Shorthand, Stephen worked as a Freelance reporter in the Rochester area until April of 1989. At which time he began working as a Grand Jury Reporter for the Monroe County District Attorney's Office. In December of 1997, Stephen then worked in Federal Court for the Western District of New York until January of 2001. At that time he was hired as an Official Court Reporter by the 8th Judicial District and was assigned to a multi bench court in Albion, New York. In January of 2004, Stephen transferred to the 7th Judicial District in Rochester, and then in April of 05 he transferred back to Albion to the "BEST ASSIGNMENT IN THE STATE WORKING FOR THE BEST JUDGE IN THE STATE."

Stephen is also a member of the National Court Reporters Association, United States Court Reporters Association and the Stenocat Users Group, where he served as their treasurer from 1998 to 2004. Having worked in the freelance arena, as well as in the City, Family, Grand Jury, County, Supreme, Surrogate and Federal Courts, his work experiences have given him a unique perspective on the field of court reporting.

Stephen was appointed to the Board of NYSCRA in December of 2004, as an at large director. He presently serves on the mentoring committee, as well as the membership and certified realtime committees. One of his goals at this point in his court reporting career, is to share his experience and knowledge with new reporters, so that they may enjoy and accomplish the success that this outstanding profession has to offer.

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Jennifer Buccheri, RPR, CSR
Sect-Treasurer

Jennifer Buccheri was appointed to her current permanent position of Senior Court Reporter in Kings Supreme Court in July 2003 and was sworn in as a Board Member of the NYSCRA in March 2004.

Prior to her graduation, Ms. Buccheri served an internship with Herb Landman in the New York County Supreme Court, Civil Term. Upon receiving her certification as a Court Reporter in September 1997, she held per diem positions with both the Civil Court of the City of New York in Manhattan and the Criminal Court of the City of New York in Brooklyn. In September 1999, Ms. Buccheri served as a Hearing Reporter in a permanent position at the Workers' Compensation Board and in March 2000 as a Court Reporter in the Criminal Court of the City of New York in Brooklyn. Ms. Buccheri received a provisional appointment as a Senior Court Reporter in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in Queens in July 2001.

Ms. Buccheri holds RPR and CSR certifications and is a member of NCRA, NYSCRA and was an Executive Commitee member in Queens of the Association of Surrogate's and Supreme Court Reporters.

Ms. Buccheri attended Brooklyn College and completed her certification as a Court Reporter at the Stenotype Academy in New York City.

Jennifer looks forward to working with all the members of the NYSCRA and being a part of the future of this profession, and on a personal note, Ms. Buccheri became Mrs. Frank Buccheri in January of this year.

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Lori L. Strong
Chair of the Board

Lori Strong is a Senior Court Reporter who is presently working in Supreme Court in Buffalo, New York since 1998. She worked as a court reporter in Erie County Family Court from 1993 to 1998. Prior to that she freelanced with Buyers & Kaczor Reporting Services in Buffalo, New York doing depositions, court work and closed-captioning for WIVB-TV in Buffalo and WWOR in New York. She was also a teacher at the Stenographic Institute of W.N.Y. for several years.

Lori is presently a RPR, CSR and CRR. She recently served as a faculty member at the 2002 Court Reporter Seminars in Rochester and Albany sharing her experience in realtime.

She is highly motivated and is looking forward to serving as a Board Chair for our association.

Lori currently lives in Orchard Park, New York with her husband, Todd, and two children, Anthony and Kelcy.

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Anthony D. Frisolone, CSR-R, RMR, CRI
Immediate Past -President, NYSCRA

Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, Anthony has been a NYSCRA member since 1995, and is a 1994 graduate of Stenotype Academy located in New York City.
An 11-year court reporting veteran, Anthony earned his Registered Professional Reporter certification in 1996, and is currently a Federal Official Court Reporter for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York located in Brooklyn, New York. In June of 2005, Anthony earned the Registered Merit Reporter Certification, which is the second-highest, nationally-recognized certification a court reporter can earn.

Anthony also holds the Certified Shorthand Reporter license in the states of New York and New Jersey. He also holds the New Jersey Certified Realtime Reporter certification.

During his career, Anthony has had reporting assignments ranging from Hearing Reporter at the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board and Official Court Reporter in New York County Family Court.

After graduating from court reporting school, Anthony got his start as a freelance court reporter in New York City first at Reinig Court Reporting, Inc. and then at Diamond Reporting, Inc. Both agencies are located in the New York City area.

Anthony’s involvement with NYSCRA started first as a volunteer helping at various association activities, one of the first was collecting signatures to help political candidates friendly to reporters.

In 1998, Anthony was elected to the Board of Directors where he continued to work on and organize various association activities such as the association’s battle against the use of electronic recording in the New York State court system.

In November of 1999, Anthony took on the responsibility of publishing the association’s official publication, The Transcript, and his committee which consisted of four other working court reporters who were charged with the responsibility of checking the content of the articles, attracting advertisers to the magazine, and art director responsible for the layout and artwork that appears in the magazine.

In 2000, Anthony was elected to the position of Chair of the Board of Directors where he served until his election as Vice President in October 2002.

Since February 2001, Anthony traveled several times the Washington, D.C. area to attend the NCRA Legislative and Media Boot Camp, which is a three-day workshop designed for state leaders to become better advocates and liaisons between legislators and the court reporting profession. In November 2002, he also attended NCRA’s National Leadership Conference where he met with association leaders from around the United States and attended seminars to help him become an effective state court reporting association leader.
In 2004, Anthony, along with the Legislative Committee, spearheaded the effort to prevent the loss of court reporting positions at the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board. That effort was successful, thus saving 125 Hearing Reporter jobs in New York State. In June of 2005, Anthony, along with the Legislative Committee of NYSCRA was able to get legislation passed that would make it a law that attorneys are responsible for paying freelance court reporters’ fees statewide.

Aside from legislative activities and his other responsibilities as an officer, he actively promotes the association to non-members and is very active in recruiting. Anthony also is a mentor to court-reporting students at all skill levels not only in New York but also on a national level through the National Court Reporters Association’s Virtual Mentoring Program.

His mentoring activities have since led him into the classroom where he taught at the New York Career Institute (formerly known as Stenotype Academy) at levels ranging from Advanced Theory to the 140-180 wpm class. He got his start dictating at NYCI’s Supreme Court/Lower Court Reporter test preparation class held in the spring of 2002. Anthony received the Court Reporting Instructor certification, which is a certification, granted by the National Court Reporters Association in March of 2005.

Anthony also enjoys taking time out of court to attend career days at various New York City high schools to encourage young people in joining our profession by demonstrating the stenotype machine and informing them about not only the judicial arm of court reporting but also about the in-demand fields of CART and closed captioning.

Anthony is also the author of several articles that have appeared in The Transcript and in the Journal of Court Reporting. He has also been a seminar presenter at both state and national seminars.

On a personal note, Anthony resides on Staten Island, New York with his wife, Kelly, and sons, Anthony and Nicholas. He is also a 4th Degree member of the Knights of Columbus and enjoys golf, tennis and bicycling.

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