WOMEN OWNED LAW LEADERSHIP

Meet the Women Owned Law Leadership! The all volunteer leadership team is comprised of Officers, Directors and Advisory Board members that work together to carry out WOL's mission to provide networking, educational and career development opportunities for our colleagues in the women owned legal entrepreneur ecosystem. WOL Leadership is assisted by a Director of Operations, who serves as an Ex-Officio member of the Board.

WOMEN OWNED LAW BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President 
Nancy J. Mertzel
Mertzel Law PLLC
Vice President Chair, Board Nominations/Governance
Cynthia Funaro Towers
Jurisolutions 

Vice President
Nancy Lanard
Luther Lanard
, P.C 
Secretary
Colleen Vallen 
J.A. Montgomery Risk Control



Treasurer &
Chair, Finance Committee
Sara Austin
Austin Law Firm, LLC. 

Director
Judith Bachman, Esq.
The Bachman Law Firm 

Director & Chair, DEI & Chair, DC Region
Andrea Ewart
Develop Trade Law 
Director & Chair, Sponsorship Committee
Alaina Fotiu-Wojtowicz
Brodsky Fotiu-Wojtowicz
Director & Chair, Awards
Laurie Jubelirer
Jubelirer Law, LLC 
Director & Chair, Symposium
Shira Katz Scanlon
Martine, Katz Scanlon & Schimmel, P.A.
   
  Director & Chair, Awards
Lisa D. Love
Love and Long, LLP. 
  Director
Manuela Morais
Stevens & Lee, PC 
 
Director & Chair, Virtual Programming
Bethany Nikitenko
Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig LLP
Director 
Helene Pangalos
The Law Office of Helene Pangalos, PC
   

Director
Mandy C. Rosenblum
Law Office of Mandy C. Rosenblum, LLC

Director & Chair Member Affairs
Jessica Shpall Rosen
Greenwald Doherty Counsel for Employers
 
   
   

Director & Chair, Sponsorship Committee
Ariana J Tadler
Tadler Law LLP

Director
Lisa Wade
Wade Nurse Consultants

   

 Director
Jennefer Witter
The Boreland Group, Inc

Director
Jennifer Ward
Ward Law, LLC

 

WOMEN OWNED LAW ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Roberta D. Liebenberg, Chair
Fine, Kaplan and Black, R.P.C

Sheryl Axelrod

The Axelrod Firm, PC

Christine Azar
Burford Capital

Michelle Browning Coughlin
Wyatt, Tarrant and Combs, LLP
& Mothers, Esq

Virginia G. Essandoh
Ballard Spahr, LLP 

Carolyn Elefant
Law Offices of Carolyn Elefant PLLC  
& MyShingle.com  

Donna Gerson
Drexel University Thomas R. Kline
School of Law 

Beth L. Kaufman
Schoeman Updike Kaufman
& Gerber LLP 
                        

 

Jonathan Lovitz
National LGBT Chamber of Commerce

Sondra Monroe
Western Alliance Bank

Gina F. Rubel
Furia Rubel

Nancy Saltzman
Logicalis, Inc.


Wendy Schwartz
Binder & Schwartz LLP

Laura Solomon
Laura Solomon & Associates


Geri Swift
President Emerita, WBEC East


Barbara Taylor
JanBara & Associates

WOMEN OWNED LAW PAST PRESIDENTS

Past President
2017 - 2022 (Founder)
Nicole D. Galli
ND Galli Law LLC