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Faculty Leadership Positions

Members of the Widener Law Commonwealth faculty participate in leadership roles in professional organizations at the local, regional, national, and international levels. Their engagement with the profession makes them uniquely situated to provide students with the inside track to legal practice.

Faculty Leadership Positions: 2017– 2023


John Capowski

Site Visit Evaluator, American Bar Association, 2014-present
Executive Committee Member, Evidence Section, American Association of Law Schools, 2007-present

John Dernbach

Elected Member, American College of Environmental Lawyers
Elected Member,
American Law Institute
Vice Chair
, American Bar Association Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Ecosystems Committee, 2020–present
Member, American Bar Association Climate Change Task Force, 2019–present
Steering Committee, Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization Implementation Project, 2019–present
Editorial Board, Sustainability, 2009–present
Senior Warden, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Cathedral, 2017–2019

James Diehm

Elected Member, American Law Institute

Michael Dimino

Elected Member, American Law Institute
Member, Board of Directors and CLE Committee, Dauphin County Bar Association, 2020–2022
Program Chair and Member, Executive Board, James S. Bowman American Inns of Court, 2020–2022
Member, Federal Bar Association Bench/Bar Committee
Senior Associate Editor, Italian Law Journal, 2017–present
Chair, Free Speech and Election Law Practice Group, Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, 2021
Executive Committee Member, Free Speech and Election Law Practice Group, Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, 2011–present

Sarah Everhart

Board Member, Academy of Food Law and Policy, 2022-present

Jill Family

Last Retiring Chair, American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, 2023
Elected Member, American Law Institute
Member, Academic Consultative Group, Administrative Conference of the United States, 2022-present

Anna Hemingway

Chair, Pennsylvania Bar Association Plain English Committee, 2015–2018
Board Member, Journal of the Legal Writing Institute

Michael Hussey

Member, Board of Directors, United Way of the Capital Region, 2019–present
Chair, United Way of the Capital Region Money in Your Pocket Steering Committee
Co-Chair, United Way of the Capital Region Community Impact Committee, 2012–present

Christian Johnson

Co-Editor-in-Chief (with Kammel and Booysen), International Banking and Securities Law, 2015-present
Council of Advisors and Finance Committee Member, U.S. Army Heritage Center Foundation, 2019-present
Co-Chair, Continuing Legal Education Subcommittee, New York City Committee on Futures and Derivatives Regulation, 2021-present
Editorial Board Member, Futures and Derivatives Law Report, 2022
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Brill Research Perspectives in International Banking and Securities Law, 2015–present

Robyn Meadows

Member, Contracts Expert Panel, AccessLex Institute Bar Preparation Project

Kellyn O. McGee

Member, American Bar Association Standing Committee on Professionalism, 2021-present
Member, Editorial Board ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct, 2018-2021
Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee, 2023
Board Member, Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys Foundation, 2018-2021
Board Member, Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Life Member
Member, State Bar of Georgia Disciplinary Rules and Procedures Committee, 2015-2019
Member, State Bar of Georgia Professionalism Committee, 2015-2019
Member, State Bar of Georgia Unlicensed Practice of Law Committee, 2013-2019
Member, Atlanta Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Board, 2021-2023
Board Member, Mediation Center of the Coastal Empire, 2016-2019

Juliet Moringiello

Co-Chair, Uniform Law Committee Study Committee on the Use of Tokens or Other Similar Products in Real Property Transactions
Vice Chair
, Uniform Law Commission/American Law Institute Drafting Committee on the Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies
Member, Uniform Law Commission/American Law Institute Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code
Chair, Uniform Law Commission Drafting Committee on Tenancy in Common Ownership Default Rules
Member, Board of Directors, Nativity School of Harrisburg, 2016–2020
Elected Member, American Law Institute
Fellow, American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers
Chair, Pennsylvania Bar Association Section of Business Law, 2017–2018
Executive Editor, Business Law Today (American Bar Association Section of Business Law), 2017–present
Chair, Task Force for the Enactment of the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act, Pennsylvania Bar Association Section of Business Law, 2014–2017

Mary Catherine Scott

Member, Dauphin County Bar Association Public Services Committee, 2005–present
Member, Pennsylvania Law School Elder Justice Consortium, 2022-present
Appointed Member, Advisory Council on Elder Justice in the Courts, 2017–present
School Board Member, Trinity High School, Camp Hill, PA, 2017–2022

Amanda Sholtis

Group Leader, DivorceCare support group at Daybreak Church, 2009–present
Board of Directors Member, Mid-Penn Legal Services, 2020-present

Rebecca Waldemar

Member, Dauphin County Bar Association Public Services Committee, 2005–present


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