Simply put, The Gallery of Shorthand would not exist without the imagination, determination, and skills of Dom Tursi. One of the world’s greatest stenographers, he was also a visionary with a passion for teaching and entertaining. With The Gallery of Shorthand, he managed to do both.
Dominick M. Tursi was an accomplished verbatim reporter, educator, and competitor, who had more than 60 years of professional experience, Dom has reported proceedings worldwide, from Southeast Asia to Egypt. He lectured across the United States, presented in Beijing before an historic conference of Chinese and American reporters, and in Belgium addressed an assemblage of speech-capture experts from around the world.
He was an active federal court reporter in the building that houses The Gallery of Shorthand, Dom was one of the earliest East Coast reporters ever to use a computer for transcription and one of the first to transmit steno internationally. He testified as a reporting expert and served as consultant to computer-assisted transcription developers.
Founder, director, and instructor at the Verbatim School of Court Reporting (est. 1969), on Long Island, for more than a decade, the Legends of Shorthand author has also written numerous monographs about shorthand reporting.
Dom Tursi was a three-time New York State Shorthand Speed Contest Champion, achieved a rare perfect paper in 1974 at 280 words per minute, and holds the 1981 World Shorthand Speed record of 300 words per minute for 5 continuous minutes, a record broken in 2023.
A two-time President of the New York State Court Reporters Association – the first shorthand association in the United States – he is recipient of its highest distinction, The Louis Goldstein Award. In 2014 Dominick Tursi was elected a Fellow of the world’s shorthand association, The Incorporated Phonographic Society of London.
Dominick M. Tursi passed away on April 14, 2023, just a day after his 80th birthday. He left behind his wife, four (4) children, and seven (7) grandchildren. His memory and legacy will continue through The Gallery of Shorthand and all those people he touched throughout his life, both in and out of the Stenography community.
