Alumni Association

Minority Alumni Society

The Minority Alumni Society of the Villanova Law Alumni Association is an organization dedicated to supporting and promoting diversity at Villanova University School of Law and within the legal profession.

The goals of the organization are: (1) to assist the law school in recruitment of minority students, (2) to provide mentoring opportunities for minority students and alumni, (3) to foster personal and professional relationships with and among minority alumni and the law school, and (4) to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas relative to the interests of minority law student and lawyers.

Minority Book Scholarship Fund

A program supported by the Minority Alumni Society Leadership Board to help defray the cost of a minority student's legal education beyond the cost of tuition. Each year $1,000.00 book scholarships are awarded to minority students. Your help is needed to endow this scholarship. For more information or to donate, contact the Law School's Development Office.

Minority Mentoring Program

A program sponsored by the Minority Alumni Society and Minority Student Associations through which minority alumni serve as mentors to minority students, providing valuable knowledge and insight into the legal and business professions, while also sharing practical advice concerning the challenges of law school. For more information - Click Here.

Leadership Board

President

Gregory B. Williams '95
Fox Rothschild LLP
2000 Market Street, Tenth Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-3291
215-299-2792
gwilliams@forxrothschild.com

President-Elect

April M. Byrd '95 
U.S. Attorney's Office 
1007 Orange Street
Suite 700
Wilmington, DE 19801
302-573-6209
april.byrd@usdoj.gov

Vice President

Bryant D. Lim '96
Merck & Co., Inc. 
Box 1000 
Mail Stop: UG-4A-50 
North Wales, PA 19454-1099
267-305-2095
bryant_lim@merck.com

Immediate Past President

The Honorable Kathryn Streeter Lewis '76 
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas 
429 City Hall 
Philadelphia, PA 19107 
215-686-9532 
Kathryn.Lewis@courts.phila.gov

Advisors

Manpreet S. Dhanjal ’01
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
Refugee and Immigrant Program
310 Fourth Avenue, South, Suite 1000
Minneapolis, MN 55415
612-341-3302 ext. 103
mdhanjal@mnadvocates.org

John P. Encarnacion '99
White & Williams LLP 
1800 One Liberty Place 
Philadelphia, PA 19103 
215-864-6354 
encarnacionj@whitewms.com

Israel J. Floyd '73 
Hercules Inc. 
Hercules Plaza 
1313 North Market Street 
Wilmington, DE 19894-0001 
302-594-5128 
ifloyd@herc.com

Professor Ruth Gordon
Villanova University School of Law
299 North Spring Mill Road
Villanova, PA 19085
610-519-6413
gordon@law.villanova.edu

Isabel Lopez Duffy '97 
Merck & Co., Inc. 
Box 1000 
Mail Stop: UG-4A-60 
North Wales, PA 19454-1099 
267-305-2094 
isabel_duffy@merck.com

Lucia A. Panzarella '96
PMBR
450 7th Avenue
Suite 3002
New York, NY 10023
212-947-2525
lpanzarella@pmbr.com

Angeles Roca '95 
Law Offices of Angeles Roca 
513 West Girard Avenue 
Philadelphia, PA 19122 
215-765-1435

Steven C. Tolliver '80 
Aetna U.S. Healthcare 
Health Litigation Group, U19A 
980 Jolly Road 
P.O. Box 1180 
Blue Bell, PA 19422 
215-775-3674 
tollivers@aetna.com

Marilou E. Watson '94
Synnestvedt and Lechner, LLP
2600 Aramark Tower
1101 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-923-4466
mwatson@synnlech.com

Paul D. Weller '89
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
1701 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA
215-963-5530
pweller@morganlewis.com

Marvin L. Williams '99 LLM 
Child Support Master 
First Judicial District 
215-686-8865
attyllm@comcast.net

Victor A. Young '74 
Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel 
1617 JFK Boulevard, 19th Floor 
Philadelphia, PA 19103 
215-665-3114 
victor.young@obermayer.com

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