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<p>Munley Law announces that Melinda C. Ghilardi, Esq., will join the firm on March 18.</p><p>Ghilardi worked as an Assistant Federal Public Defender for 33 years and served as First Assistant Federal Public Defender from 1988-2017. Prior to joining the federal defender&#8217;s staff in 1986, she was an Assistant District Attorney in Lackawanna County. </p><p>Ghilardi has spent many years representing the interests of women and woman lawyers in Pennsylvania. In 2005, she received the Lynette Norton Award presented by the Pennsylvania Bar Association&#8217;s Commission on Women in the Profession. That same year she received the inaugural Athena Award presented by the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce.</p><p>She is a past president of the Lackawanna Bar Association and is co-chair of both the Geisinger Health System&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Health Volunteer Leadership Council and of the Geisinger Northeast Advisory Council.</p><p>She was also a member of The University of Scranton&#8217;s Board of Trustees, where she chaired the Student Life and Presidential Search Committees. Theuniversity honored her by establishing an Ignatian Scholarship in her name. In 2000, Ghilardi received the university&#8217;s Frank J. O&#8217;Hara Alumni Award for outstanding achievement in the field of law. In 2016, Ghilardi was honored with the Robert W. Munley Distinguished Service Award.</p><p>Ghilardi is a magna cum laude graduate of The University of Scranton. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.</p><style>
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Melinda C. Ghilardi, Esq. joins staff at Munley Law