Tad J. Bistor
Tad was born and raised in Newburgh, New York in the scenic Hudson River Valley. He attended Orange County Community College where he earned an Associate in Science degree, with honors, in chemistry before transferring to the University of Binghamton (SUNY) where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1990. In January 1991, Tad began his law school career at the University of Bridgeport School of Law in Connecticut. During his second year of law school, Tad witnessed a law school “first” as his law school switched parent institutions – leaving the University of Bridgeport for Quinnipiac College. A year later, in 1993, Tad received his JD as part of the first law school class to graduate from the new Quinnipiac College School of Law.
In September 1991, during his second year of law school, Tad joined the William O. Douglas Chapter and thereafter attended his first International Convention in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1992. He served as Chapter Justice during his final year of law school and led his Chapter to be a finalist in the Stanley H. Kohn Outstanding Chapter competition. In addition, Tad was recognized as the Outstanding Chapter Justice in District XX and placed second for the Alex A. Hotchkiss Outstanding Chapter Justice Award. Following his graduation from law school, Tad was instrumental in the chartering of the Hudson Valley Alumni Chapter in June 1994 and served as its initial Justice until September 2002. He is also a charter member of the Central Connecticut Alumni Chapter and served as its Chapter Justice for nearly ten years from 2002 to 2012.
On the International level, Tad has attended eleven consecutive International Conventions as a chapter or district delegate. Tad also served on the 2004 Convention Committee and three consecutive terms on the Alumni Advisory Council, from 2002 to 2008. Tad is a former Assistant District XX Justice, from August 2005 until October 2006, as well as a former alumni advisor to the William O. Douglas Chapter and the current alumni advisor to the William F. Starr Chapter. Tad was elected to his current position as one of the Fraternity’s two International Associate Tribunes at the 2012 International Convention in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Tad currently resides in West Hartford, Connecticut and has been a litigator in private practice for over eighteen years, representing clients in family, civil, criminal and appellate matters. He is admitted to practice in Connecticut and New York, the Federal District of Connecticut, the Southern and Eastern Federal Districts of New York, and before the United States Supreme Court.