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<p>The Boy Scouts of America Minsi Trails Council will recognize Megan Kennedy with the 2019 Distinguished Citizen Award during the Greater Hazleton Leadership Dinner on Tuesday, April 30 at the Sand Springs Country Club, Drums. Ms. Kennedy will be recognized by area Scouts, as well as business and community leaders, for her achievements and service to the community. The chairman for this year&#8217;s Leadership Dinner is John Fletcher, president of LVH-Hazleton.</p><p>Kennedy was born and raised in Hazleton. She graduated from Hazleton High School and attended The University of Scranton, where she received a B.A. in modern languages, magna cum laude.</p><p>In 1995, Kennedy graduated from the Temple University Beasley School of law. Upon graduation, she worked at the law firm of Kennedy and Lucadamo; and in 1996, she began working as an assistant district attorney at the Luzerne County District Attorney&#8217;s Office. She became resident counsel at First Federal Bank in 1998 and remained in that position until 2004, when she accepted the position as the executive director of the First Federal Charitable Foundation, where she remains today.</p><p>Kennedy is involved in the community and holds positions on several non-profit boards including the Boy Scouts Minsi Trails Council, Family Service Association, the Hazleton Rotary Foundation, the Non-Profit Community Assistance Center (NCAC), The Luzerne Foundation, the Hazleton YWCA, Fairview Elementary PTA, Crestwood Boys Basketball Booster Club, the Hazleton Area Education Foundation, Penn State Hazleton Advisory Council, King&#8217;s College President&#8217;s Council, Concerned Parents of the Hazleton Area and the Luzerne County Chapter of the PA Human Relations Commission.</p><p>In 2016, she received the distinguished citizen award from Concerned Parents and she was also awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by the Hazleton Rotary Club for her work with the Coats for Kids program. Kennedy has been a volunteer ESL teacher with Concerned Parents for 10 years and she also teaches religious education at St. Jude Parish. She is a certified spin instructor at the Fitness Place in Mountaintop.</p><p>Kennedy lives in Mountaintop with her husband, Judge Joe Sklarosky, and their four children, Katie, Jack, Matthew and Norah.</p><p>For more information on the Greater Hazleton Area Leadership Dinner, contact Lisa Finkelstein, Minsi Trails Development Director, at 610-465-8566 or lisa.finkelstein@scouting.org.</p><style>
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Megan Kennedy to receive Distinguished Citizen Award at Leadership Dinner