Gender Equality Coordinator
Attorney Linda Varrenti Hernandez serves as the ACBA Gender Equality Coordinator, which is the first such bar association position in the country. Hernandez has worked closely with the Gender Equality Task Force which was formed following the release of a 2006 membership survey that showed little or no improvement in the pay disparity between male and female attorneys in the 15 years since the last survey was conducted.
Hernandez most recently has been a litigator for Dickie McCamey & Chilcote, LLC. A graduate of the Duquesne University School of Law, Hernandez worked a year at Neighborhood Legal Services Association as a "Lawyer on Loan" from Dickie McCamey. During that time she litigated and closed 133 cases. She also has been a member of the bar association's Gender Equality Task Force since its inception.
Hernandez, who raised a family before deciding in 1998 to enter law school, began her assignment with the bar association on July 16, 2007. Through her work, she will continue to follow up on many of the findings of the Gender Equality Task Force, which is made up of both female and male attorneys and judges and includes four subcommittees: Work Life and Compensation Disparity Committee, Job Satisfaction and Retention Committee, Perceptions and Attitudes Committee, and the Information Gathering Committee.
Hernandez may be reached at 412-402-6660 or at lhernandez@acba.org.