 He also was a member of the Criminal Jury Instructions Committee and served on a task force formed by NY Governor Hugh Carey to study ways to increase state funding for local police departments.From 1976 to 1992, McQuillan served as an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law , the school from which he had received his law degree.In 1993, he received the New York State Bar Association's Vincent E. Doyle, Jr. Award for Outstanding Judicial Contribution in the Criminal Justice System.