Gary Silver is a partner with the Monticello law firm, Billig, Loughlin & Silver LLP, and the attorney for the Village of Liberty representing the Village Board, Planning Board, and Zoning Board of Appeals.
Mr. Silver began his legal career in 1984 as confidential law clerk to Hon. Robert C. Williams, a Supreme Court Justice in Sullivan County, before going into private practice. He is a graduate of Brandies University (1981) and Hofstra Law School (with distinction), and was a partner in the law practice of Stoloff & Silver, LLP from January 1995 through September 2016.
Mr. Silver is a member of the Sullivan County Partnership for Economic Development’s Board of Directors, the Vice Chair of New Hope Community, a member of Cornell Cooperative Extension – Sullivan County’s Board of Directors, the Co-Chair of the Liberty Rotary Club’s Disaster Preparedness and Relief Committee, a Past-President and present member of the Board of Directors of the Liberty Rotary Club, and is the Vice President for Legal and Governmental Affairs and a member of the Board of Directors for Operation Endeavor, Inc. (a not-for-profit humanitarian organization).
He is the 2017 recipient of the Sullivan County Partnership’s Distinguished Service Award. He also received the Tonsukh Dorawala Humanitarian Award from Rotary District 7210 in 2017, the Community Service Award from NOAH NY in 2018, was honored by the Sullivan County Democratic Committee in 2019 for his humanitarian work, and was the 2020 recipient of the SYDA Foundation’s Community Service Award.
Through the Liberty Rotary Club, Mr. Silver is involved in the Haiti Clean Water Program, which works to provide clean water to thousands in Cap Haitien, Haiti; Mr. Silver has travelled to Haiti ten times since November 2014 in connection with this program. He is also presently involved, through the Liberty Rotary Club’s Disaster Preparedness and Relief Committee, in working with Rotary Clubs in Puerto Rico to assist them in developing disaster preparedness plans to train their communities to be better prepared for hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes.
Mr. Silver and his wife, Diane (to whom he has been married since 1984), have raised two daughters (Michelle and Alexandra) in Sullivan County, where he has lived for the past 33 years, and he has two grandsons, Julian and Nico.