2019-2022 Brochure

Herbert Selzer

Herb, and his wife, Roberta, have resided in Frenchman’s Creek since 2003, and continue to increase their time spent in Florida as Herb’s participation as a partner in his New York law firm significantly decreases. Herb and Roberta have three children and five grandchildren all of whom spend their holidays and vacation time as much as possible with the family at Frenchman’s Creek.

Herb graduated from Brooklyn College in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in economics, received his Juris Doctor degree from The George Washington

University Law Center in 1971 and obtained his LLM in Taxation from the New York University Law School in 1976. He began his career at Ernst & Young as tax specialist in 1971, and since 1972 has been an attorney and senior partner at his law firm in New York City. He now serves as of counsel to his firm. In addition to the practice of law and specializing on international corporate and tax matters, Herb has served on the boards of a member of international based investment and hedge funds, as a board member and officer of foreign based industrial companies engaged in the plastics and petrochemical business areas, and as trustee of numerous trusts for clients of his firm. He currently serves as US counsel to a prominent Swiss private bank. Herb has been a member of The Old Westbury Golf & Country Club since 1985, has served as its Pres- ident and been a member of its executive committee for over six years, served as its Secretary and Vice President as well as its legal chairman. He is currently a member of the board of the Genesis Founda- tion, which is dedicated to providing enhanced educational opportunities and programming to disadvan- taged children in Colombia. He is also a member of the board of the US Friends of the Cardio Infantil Hospital, located in Bogota, Colombia, which provides world class medical services and hospital care to a wide range of children located throughout Latin America. Herb has been a member of the Frenchman’s Creek golf committee and assisted with the planning of the inaugural Veterans Day golf outing in 2018. He has embarked on his retirement path at his law firm and is spending increasingly more time in Florida and looks forward to full retirement shortly. This will give him the opportunity to devote his energy and expertise to serve the Frenchman’s Creek communi- ty. 1. What do you consider to be our community’s greatest strengths? The greatest strength of our community is the long established sense of community as evidenced by our numerous charitable efforts and activities, our annual community art show hosted by our community volunteers, our varied children’s activities during holidays and the many cultural and educational activi- ties that the community supports. My five year old grandson was once asked where he would like to spend most of his time and without hesitation said ”Frenchman’s Creek”. 2. How can your talents best serve the community as a Board Member? As a former president of a New York country club and member of its executive committee for many years, I understand the challenges confronting boards of this type and our community. I believe I have the talent and experience to work effectively to build a consensus to address the community’s is- sues. My financial background has equipped me to be able to participate in a meaningful way to assist the board to fulfill its mission of serving the community.