Mr. Doyle is a former President of the New York State Bar Association. The 77,000-member Association is the largest and oldest voluntary state bar association in the country. He has previously served in various leadership positions, including terms in both the House of Delegates and the Executive Committee of the Association. He is a member and past Chair of the State Bar’s Committee to Ensure Quality of Mandated Representation, its President’s Committee on Access to Justice, and its Criminal Justice Section.

Mr. Doyle sits on the Advisory Committee on Criminal Law and Procedure to the Chief Administrative Judge of the State, and was appointed by the Chief Judge of the State to the Commission on the Jury, a blue ribbon panel charged with formulating ways to improve the jury system in New York. Mr. Doyle served on the Board of Directors of the Erie County Bar Association. He is a past President of the Erie County Aid to Indigent Prisoners Society.