Scranton-based lawyer Jennifer Menichini of Joyce, Carmody & Moran PC is the immediate past chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Young Lawyers Division (PBA YLD.
Active at both the state and local levels of the organized bar, Menichini is concluding a one-year term as chair of the PBA YLD. During 2018-19, Menichini served as PBA YLD chair-elect, and, during 2017-18, she served as PBA YLD secretary.
Menichini is the co-chair of the PBA YLD executive committee for the PBA Statewide High School Mock Trial Competition and a regional coordinator for the competition.
Since 2015, Menichini has been a voting member of the PBA House of Delegates, the policymaking body of the association.
Menichini is secretary of the PBA Federal Practice. She is a current member of a number of additional committees and sections, including the Civil and Equal Rights Committee, Civil Litigation Section, Finance Committee, Labor and Employment Law Section, Quality of Life/Balance Committee, Solo and Small Firm Section, and Commission on Women in the Profession. She is a member of the Task Force on Dues Structure.
Menichini is a past chair of the PBA Federal Practice Committee’s Outreach and Diversity Subcommittee. She was a member of the class of 2015-16 of the PBA Bar Leadership Institute, which helps prepare lawyers for future leadership within the association.
Menichini is a past president of the Middle District of Pennsylvania Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.
She is a member and serves on the Board of Directors of the Lackawanna Bar Association. She is a past president of the Lackawanna Bar Association Young Lawyers Division.
Menichini also is a member of the Wilkes-Barre Law and Library Association and the Monroe County Bar Association.
Menichini graduated with honors from the University of Scranton and earned a J.D. from Duquesne University.