U.S. Magistrate Judge Pamela A. Carlos was appointed to the bench on November 12, 2021. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Franklin and Marshall College (1986) and her Juris Doctor from Temple University’s Beasley School of Law (1989). Prior to her appointment, Judge Carlos served as lead trial counsel in hundreds of civil litigation matters in the Pennsylvania state and federal courts as a Member of Bennett, Bricklin and Saltzburg, LLC. Judge Carlos joined the firm in 1993 and became a Member in 1998. In 2009, Judge Carlos was elected to serve on the firm’s Executive Committee, a five-person committee responsible for the management of all firm operations and departments including finance, technology and human resources. Judge Carlos served in this capacity until her retirement from the firm in 2021. In addition, Judge Carlos was Chair of the Special Investigative Unit practice group from 1997 to 2004 and Chair of the Bad Faith and Insurance Coverage practice group from 2004 through 2021. Judge Carlos also served as former Chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee. During her service Bennett Bricklin continued to grow in the area of diverse employment. By 2019, PA Law’s Annual Report on the State of the Profession survey of the largest 100 law firms in Pennsylvania listed Bennett Bricklin as 41st in size and 2nd in percentage of female attorneys. Upon graduation from law school, Judge Carlos began her legal career as an Assistant District Attorney for the Office of the District Attorney of Philadelphia from 1989 through 1993. While there she served in the Municipal Court, Motions and Major Jury divisions, trying numerous matters to verdict.

Prof. Epstein is Director of Advocacy Programs at Temple Beasley School of Law (Philadelphia). He teaches and writes in the areas of trial advocacy, appellate advocacy, evidence, and criminal law. He has concentrated on issues involving forensic science, the death penalty, eyewitness evidence, and advocacy. Professor Epstein has argued repeatedly in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and has authored or co-authored numerous amicus briefs for that Court.

Judge Fisher was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate in December 2003. Prior to becoming a judge, he served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania having been elected in 1996 and re-elected in 2000. Judge Fisher argued major cases in state and federal appellate courts and in March 1998, he successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court a precedent-setting case ensuring that paroled criminals meet the conditions of their release. Before his election as Attorney General, Judge Fisher was in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, serving six years in the State House and 16 years in the State Senate. He began his legal career as an Assistant DA in Pittsburgh following his graduation from Georgetown University and its Law Center where he was honored in 2023 as the recipient of The William Gaston Award for service and leadership. He continued to practice law during his career in the General Assembly and was a shareholder or partner in various firms, including Houston Harbaugh. Judge Fisher chaired the Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction of the U.S. Judicial Conference and chairs the PA Bar Association’s Federal Practice Committee. In 2017 Judge Fisher assumed Senior Status on the 3rd Circuit and was named as the Initial Distinguished Jurist in Residence at Pitt Law where he continues to teach Federal Appellate Advocacy and Federal Courts.

Ms. Conrad is a partner in the Commercial Litigation Department and Chair of the Higher Education Practice Group with White and Williams LLP, resident in Center Valley. She practices in the area of employment law and litigation with a focus on representing businesses, educational institutions and non-profit organizations in all aspects of workplace disputes. In addition to representing management in employee relations matters, Ms. Conrad’s practice includes the defense of federal and state discrimination claims, wrongful discharge claims, whistleblower claims, employment contract matters and restrictive covenant cases. Ms. Conrad’s practice includes representing colleges and universities in employment and education law matters with an emphasis on tenure related disputes and student discipline proceedings. Ms. Conrad also conducts investigations related to compliance, personnel and misconduct. Ms. Conrad received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Lycoming College and her M.Ed., summa cum laude, from The Pennsylvania State University and her J.D., cum laude, from Temple University School of Law. Ms. Conrad has been selected in a survey of her peers as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer and in The Best Lawyers of America. She has received the Athena Award from the Chamber of Commerce, and the Take the Lead Award from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania and has been named by Lehigh Valley Business as a Woman of Influence. In May 2019, Ms. Conrad received the Anne X. Alpern Award from the PBA WIP and in 2022 and 2023, was named on the Lehigh Valley Business Power List in Law. Ms. Conrad is President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and a Past President of the Lehigh County Bar Association. Ms. Conrad is a Past Woman Governor on the PBA Board of Governors and a Past Chair of the PBA DEI Team. She is a Past Chair of the PBA Labor and Employment Law Section and a Past Chair of the PBA Commission on Women in the Legal Profession. Ms. Conrad currently serves as a Vice-Chair of the PBA Federal Practice Committee and serves on the PBA Civil Litigation Section Council and Labor Employment Section Council. Ms. Conrad is a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Ms. Conrad is a certified Level 2 Civil Rights Investigator, and Title IX Hearing Officer.

Luis Felipe Restrepo was born in Medellin, Colombia, was raised in Northern Virginia, and took the oath of United States citizenship on September 7, 1993. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Tulane Law School and worked as a Defender in Philadelphia in both the local and federal courts before entering private practice in 1993. He was a partner in the firm of Krasner & Restrepo until June of 2006, when he was sworn in as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He has been an adjunct professor at Temple University James E. Beasley Law School since 1993 and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1997 to 2009, where he was appointed the Irving R. Segal Lecturer in advocacy. His varied publications have appeared in The Legal Intelligencer, The National Law Journal, and the ABA’s Criminal Justice magazine. President Barack Obama nominated Judge Restrepo to be a United States District Court Judge in November of 2012. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 17, 2013, and received his commission on June 19, 2013. In November of 2014 President Obama nominated Judge Restrepo to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, he was confirmed by the Senate on January 11, 2016, and received his commission on January 13, 2016. Judge Restrepo was nominated by President Trump, and more recently, by President Biden to serve on the United States Sentencing Commission. He was confirmed as a Vice-Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission in August of 2022. In 1995 Judge Restrepo received the New American/New Freedom Committee Award from the Balch Institute in Philadelphia “in appreciation for outstanding service to the greater Philadelphia community and the nation.” In 2000, he was awarded the Cesare Beccaria Award by the Criminal Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association and the Justinian Society for his commitment to criminal justice issues and teaching services. In 2004, he received the Gideon Award presented by Temple Law School for demonstrating a commitment to ensuring that competent counsel are afforded to the indigent. In 2010 he was awarded “La Justicia” award by the Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania and the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
Distinguished Jurist Award by the Philadelphia Bar Association in recognition for his efforts with the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s federal prisoner Re-Entry Program. In 2014 he was presented with the “Campeones de la Justicia” award by the Latino Law Students Association of Rutgers Law School. Judge Restrepo was recognized by Stetson Law School with the Cornerstone Award in 2017 in recognition for his contribution to protecting the right to a trial by jury and teaching trial advocacy. Al Dia newspaper recognized his public service with the 2018 Hispanic Heritage Award and in 2019 the NACDL presented him with the Champion of Justice Recognition Award. In 2022 Judge Restrepo was inducted into the Tulane Law School Hall of Fame. Judge Restrepo is a past President of the Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania. He has served on numerous boards including the Make a Wish Foundation for Philadelphia and Susquehanna Valley, the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association, the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention, the Board of Directors of the Defender Association of Philadelphia where he served as Federal Trustee and Secretary of the Board and the Russell Byers Charter School.

The Honorable Karoline Mehalchick is a United States District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. She was appointed by President Joseph Biden and confirmed by the Senate on January 31, 2024. Prior to her appointment as a District Judge, she served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania for over ten years, having been appointed to that position in July 2013. She also served as Chief Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania from January 2020 until the time of her appointment as a District Judge. Prior to entering on duty with the court in 2013, Judge Mehalchick was in private practice, where she represented a broad range of clients in both state and federal trial and appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court. She is a graduate of the Schreyer Honors College of the Pennsylvania State University (B.S. Geosciences), and the Tulane University School of Law. After graduation, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Trish Corbett, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County. Judge Mehalchick was also an adjunct professor at Marywood University from 2003 until 2012. Judge Mehalchick presides over the Scranton location of the Court-Assisted Re-Entry Program (CARE Court), coordinates the Court’s summer intern program, and sits on the Court’s Prisoner Litigation Settlement Program Committee, a program which she helped establish in early 2015. Judge Mehalchick is a member of the Workplace Conduct Committee of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She has previously served as a member of the Judicial Conference Codes of Conduct Committee, and on the Magistrate Judges Advisory Group of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Judge Mehalchick is an active member of the Federal Bar Association, currently serving as National Treasurer and is the nominee for President-Elect of the Association. She is the immediate past Chair of the Judiciary Division and is a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Judge Mehalchick previously served as an FBA Third Circuit Vice President for five years, on the national Board of Directors for three years, as a judicial profiles editor for The Federal Lawyer, and is a past president of the Middle District of Pennsylvania Chapter. Judge Mehalchick is also active in the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession and is a past president of the Younger Lawyers Division of the Lackawanna Bar Association. In addition to her work with the court and with the Federal Bar Association, Judge Mehalchick participates in weekly Scholar Exchanges through the National Constitution Center, leading middle and high school students in discussions about constitutional issues and civil discourse. Outside of the legal community, Judge Mehalchick is Vice President of Production for the Ballet Theatre of Scranton.

Judge Krause was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in July of 2014. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, summa cum laude, and graduated from Stanford Law School with distinction. After clerking for the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court, Judge Krause served for five years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Before assuming the bench, Judge Krause was a partner at a multi-national law firm in Philadelphia where she specialized in white collar criminal defense and government investigations and was a frequent author and speaker on topics pertaining to constitutional and criminal law. She has served in the past as a lecturer at Stanford and Columbia Law Schools and is now an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In addition to her work as a member of the American Law Institute, Judge Krause serves on the Boards of Trustees of the American Inns of Court and the National Constitution Center. Her article, “Lawyer Wellbeing as a Crisis of the Profession,” published in the South Carolina Law Review, Volume 71: 203, was the winner of the 2019 American Inns of Court Warren E. Burger Prize.

Judge Goldberg was appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on October 31, 2008. He had previously served on the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas. Judge Goldberg’s career as a practicing attorney started at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office where he worked in both the trial and appellate divisions. He later joined the law firm of Cozen O’Connor, where his practice focused on commercial litigation. Judge Goldberg was eventually promoted to senior partner, and also served as the manager of Cozen’s Arson and Fraud Unit. Judge Goldberg returned to the public sector in 1997, serving as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania where he handled mostly white collar crime cases, both before the District Court and the United Stated Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Judge Goldberg is a graduate of Temple Law School (1986) where he was a member of Temple’s first trial team. He presently serves as an Adjunct Professor at Temple Law teaching federal law and civil/criminal advanced trial advocacy. Judge Goldberg has handled over one hundred patent cases as a visiting judge in the District of Delaware.

Judge Kenney is a United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He previously served as a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Delaware County. He is a graduate of Villanova University and Temple Law School. From 2003–2018, he was on the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas bench. There he presided over cases in the family, criminal, civil, and orphans’ sections. Judge Kenney also served a five-year term as the President Judge. He received his federal judicial commission in October of 2018.

Professor Laura E. Little serves as the James G. Schmidt Chair in Law. She specializes in federal courts, conflict of laws, and constitutional law. She teaches, lectures, and consults internationally on these subjects and is routinely engaged for training judges as well as for speeches at academic and judicial conferences. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including a sole-authored casebook, Conflict of Laws (2d ed. Aspen Wolters Kluwer 2018), two treatises: Federal Courts and First Amendment, both in Aspen Wolter Kluwer Publishing’s Examples and Explanations series, and Guilty Pleasures: Law and Comedy in America (Oxford 2019). Among her many awards for teaching and scholarship are several law school awards, a University-wide Lindback award, and Temple’s highest award for teaching, the University Great Teacher Award. The American Law Institute appointed Professor Little in 2014 to serve as Associate Reporter, Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws. Before entering academia, Professor Little practiced law in Philadelphia, litigating commercial cases and representing the print media in First Amendment cases. Prior to her law practice, Professor Little served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States (October Term 1986) and Judge James Hunter III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1985-1986). Professor Little has several times taught in Temple’s programs in Tokyo, Japan and Rome, Italy. She has served as a visiting professor at University of Sydney (Australia), and University College of Cork (Ireland). She has also lectured frequently throughout China. Professor Little’s scholarship has strong interdisciplinary character, integrating law, social science, and humanities. She has travelled internationally lecturing on law and humor and has written several studies on how legal doctrines regulate various forms of comedy.

Rachel Rebouché is the Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law and the Peter J. Liacouras Professor of Law. Prior to her appointment as Dean, she was the Associate Dean for Research, a position she held from 2017 to 2021. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Temple’s Center for Public Health Law Research. Dean Rebouché is a leading scholar in reproductive health law and family law. She is an author of Governance Feminism: An Introduction and an editor of Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field. She is also the editor of Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten, published by Cambridge University Press, and an author of the sixth edition of the casebook, Family Law. In addition, she will join the fifth edition of the casebook, Contracts: Law in Action and recently co-edited a collection of essays for Law & Contemporary Problems on the pandemic’s effects on contract law. Dean Rebouché has served as a co-investigator on two grant-funded research projects related to reproductive health, one housed at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and another funded by the World Health Organization. Her recent research also includes articles in law reviews and in peer-reviewed journals on abortion law, relational contracts, gestational surrogacy, prenatal genetic testing and genetic counseling, collaborative divorce, parental involvement laws, and international reproductive rights. Dean Rebouché received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an LL.M. from Queen’s University, Belfast, and a B.A. from Trinity University. Prior to law school, she worked as a researcher for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Human Rights Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. After law school, Dean Rebouché clerked for Justice Kate O’Regan on the Constitutional Court of South Africa and practiced law in Washington, D.C., where she served as an associate director of adolescent health programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families (formerly, the Women’s Legal Defense Fund) and as a Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow at the National Women’s Law Center.

Judge Karen McGlashan Williams is a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, confirmed on November 1, 2021. Prior to becoming a District Judge, Judge Williams was a Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey from May 1, 2009 until her confirmation. Judge Williams sits in Camden, New Jersey. Since 2015, Judge Williams has co-presided over the District of New Jersey’s Reentry Court (ReNew Camden) established for select individuals on post-conviction supervision. Before her appointment as a Magistrate Judge, Judge Williams was the managing partner of the Atlantic City office of Jasinski & Williams, P.C., a boutique law firm representing employers in all aspects of labor and employment law. Judge Williams began her law career with the law firm, then known as Jasinski & Bisceglie, as a summer associate in 1991, after spending several years in human resource management for various health care institutions. While with the firm, in addition to litigating in federal and state courts, Judge Williams developed and conducted employee training workshops on diversity, workplace harassment, wage and hour compliance, and employee discharge and discipline; conducted workplace harassment investigations; and negotiated collective bargaining agreements in both the public and private sector. Judge Williams served as the district chair of the New Jersey Supreme Court Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee from 2008 to 2009 and was a member from 2002-2009. Judge Williams also served as the panel chair of the New Jersey Supreme Court Office of Attorney Ethics Fee Arbitration Committee in 2006 and a member of the committee from 2002-2006. In addition to her judicial duties, Judge Williams currently serves as an adjunct professor at Rowan University in the Department of Law and Justice. Judge Williams has also served as an adjunct professor at the Rutgers School of Law-Camden, teaching e-Discovery and pretrial litigation. Judge Williams received her Bachelor of Science from The Pennsylvania State University in 1985 and earned her law degree from Temple University School of Law in 1992.

Judge Wolson was nominated to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in May 2018. He was renominated in May 2019, was confirmed by the Senate on May 2, 2019, and received his commission on May 28, 2019. Judge Wolson earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk for Hon. Jan E. DuBois of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He then maintained a commercial litigation practice, including antitrust, RICO, intellectual property, class action, First Amendment, and commercial contract disputes, first as an associate with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and then as a partner with Dilworth Paxson in Philadelphia.

The Honorable Kelley Brisbon Hodge is a United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Judge Hodge was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden on July 12, 2022 and received her commission from the President on December 23, 2022. Judge Hodge was sworn in as District Judge by Chief Judge Juan R. Sánchez on December 28, 2022. Prior to joining the federal bench, Judge Hodge was a partner in private practice in the Labor and Employment section of Fox Rothschild LLP in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Fox Rothschild LLP, Judge Hodge had served as the 25th District Attorney of Philadelphia after being elected in 2017 by the Board of Judges for the Court of Common Pleas for the First Judicial District. Upon her election, Judge Hodge became the first African American woman to lead the District Attorney’s office in its 167-year history and the first African American woman to lead a District Attorney’s Office in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As an attorney, Judge Hodge practiced law in the Commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virginia, starting her legal career as a public defender in Richmond, Virginia in 1997 and then relocating to Philadelphia, PA where she joined the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office in 2004. Before becoming District Attorney, Judge Hodge was the first independent Title IX coordinator at the University of Virginia. Additionally, during her career, she was appointed by two Pennsylvania Governors to serve on statewide commissions that focused on school safety, juvenile justice and citizen’s review of law enforcement. Over her twenty-five years as an attorney, Judge Hodge developed an extensive and comprehensive trial, litigation and compliance practice focusing on education law, criminal law, government policy advising, discrimination and civil rights. Judge Hodge earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1993 and her Juris Doctor from the University of Richmond School of Law in 1996. She has served as a lecturer in law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the University of Virginia School of Law. She has sat on numerous boards, has been recognized by various legal and professional entities and is a member of a number of community-centered organizations.

Aimee L. Kumer is Associate General Counsel at Main Line Health, a not-for-profit health system serving the communities in and around Philadelphia. As Associate General Counsel, Ms. Kumer is responsible for advising her clients on labor and employment matters and other areas of legal and compliance risk affecting the health system, as well as managing employment and commercial litigation matters. Prior to joining Main Line Health, Ms. Kumer practiced at Elliott Greenleaf, P.C. and Duane Morris, LLP, focusing on complex commercial litigation, in particular representing hospitals and health systems, payors, and providers in a variety of commercial and labor and employment matters. She also completed a clerkship with the Hon. Joel H. Slomsky in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Ms. Kumer received her J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law, and her undergraduate degrees from The Pennsylvania State University as a Schreyer Honors Scholar. Ms. Kumer is active in the Montgomery Bar Association, where she currently serves as the co-chair of the Federal Court Practice Committee.

Ms. White is currently Ethics Counsel to the Pennsylvania Bar Association. As Ethics Counsel, Ms. White responds to Ethics Hotline inquiries from PBA members who have questions concerning the impact of the provisions of the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct upon their own prospective conduct. Ms. White also assists the PBA’s Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee, which issues written ethics opinions and reviews and recommends proposals for changes to the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct. She also serves as the Associate Editor of the Pennsylvania Ethics Handbook, a useful guide to the professional responsibility obligations of practicing Pennsylvania lawyers. In addition to staffing the Ethics Committee, Ms. White is the staff liaison to the PBA Civility in the Profession Committee. Prior to joining the PBA, Ms. White served as Assistant Counsel for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission, practiced for several years in the private sector, and was a staff attorney in the solicitor’s office for a local municipality. Ms. White received her B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College and her J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law.