TUBAC, Ariz. — Roderick Conover Lankler, devoted and very loved husband, father and grandfather died peacefully at his home in Tubac, Arizona, on Nov. 4, 2024. Rod graduated from St. Lawrence University (where he met his wife Barbara) and Columbia University Law School. Following law school he began his accomplished legal career at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, rising to become the Chief of the Trial Division. Rod thereafter became the New York State Special Prosecutor for the Investigation of Corruption in the New York City Criminal Justice System and Executive Director of the Liman Commision.
Following public service, Rod was a founding partner of the elite New York City litigation boutique, Lankler, Siffert & Wohl. While in private practice he also served as Counsel to the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Police Management and Personnel Policy, a member of the Mayor’s Committee on the Judiciary, a Commissioner on the New York City Commission to Investigate Alleged Police Corruption (the Mollen Commission).
