José A. Cabranes, Circuit Judge, US Court of Appeals, portrait dedication

Well we are now ready for the reason you've actually come here which is to unveil the portrait and to see how well it does capture the man and then the Bar mitzvah boy himself gets to speak and before we reveal the portrait I just want to offer my profoundest thanks on behalf of all the clerks to the portraits creator the extraordinarily talented Daniel Mark Duffy and Daniel's biography is on the back of your program so I won't belabor his many accomplishments I also think he might get some grief if I did from his daughter who is here with him today and what I will tell you is that Judge Cabránus's portrait will quite remarkably be Daniel's eighth to grace the halls of the Yale Law School and when you see his masterpiece in a moment I think you will understand why he has received so many commissions from here and elsewhere as you will see and although Judge Winter is correct and a portrait cannot capture everything about a man I respectfully submit that the portrait you will about you will see captures Judge Cabránus perfectly not only his likeness but even more important his unique combination of humor on the one hand and a word that he likes gravitas on the other in addition through the background you'll see in a moment Daniel managed to convey a sense of who Judge Cabránus is and what is most important to him you'll see an architectural feature of the courthouse here in New Haven which Judge Cabránus holds so dear and played such a large role in restoring you'll see a view of Yale's campus the view of Yale's campus that you can see from the judges chambers here in New Haven and you'll see photos subtle so they don't distract from the judge himself yet distinct of the judge's family and of a scene in his native Puerto Rico and having built up the suspense or given away the store depending on your perspective I'd like to invite Daniel the artist up here along with Judge Cabránus himself and the judge's family to join me here and the judge's daughter Jennifer and his son Alayho will do the honors of actually unveiling the portrait and after that Judge Cabránus will say a few words everyone has stepped on my line about the bar mitzvon I did not have a bar mitzvon I was not eligible