Kimberly A. Brown
kbrown@thorpreed.com
President-elect Kimberly A. Brown is a partner with Thorp Reed & Armstrong, LLP and a member of the firm's Commercial and Corporate Litigation Practice Group, specializing in commercial and insurance litigation and the defense of product liability actions. She is a 1986 graduate of the University of Dayton, where she received a bachelor's degree in political science, and a 1989 graduate of Duke University School of Law. Brown is a member of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County and has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, an honor bestowed upon the top five percent of Pennsylvania lawyers. She is a Fellow of the Allegheny County Bar Foundation and a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Defense Research Institute, the Defense Research Institute, the Allegheny County Bar Association, the ACBA Civil Litigation Section, and the Women in the Law Division’s Gender Bias Subcommittee, which was created to address complaints of gender bias in the legal profession. She served as co-chair of the Subcommittee between 2000 and 2002. Since 2003, Brown has served as an elected member of the ACBA Board of Governors, and has been appointed to the Board of Governors’ ad hoc Judiciary Committee, ad hoc Strategic Planning Committee, ad hoc Public Service Committee, and has chaired the ad hoc Nominating Committee. In 2008, she was elected President-elect of the ACBA.
Brown is the 2008 recipient of the Lynette Norton Award which was bestowed by the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession for excellence in litigation skills and demonstrated leadership in mentoring female attorneys. In May 2006, she was honored by the ACBA with the Carol Los Mansmann Helping Hand Award for her efforts on behalf of women and her work in mentoring female attorneys.
Brown serves as the pro bono coordinator at Thorp Reed & Armstrong, and has provided pro bono representation of victims of abuse in Protection from Abuse proceedings over the last 15 years, as well as volunteered for various pro bono litigation matters, the KD & You and the Law program, and the court-sponsored Pro Bono Arbitration Program to benefit Neighborhood Legal Services Association. She is a faculty member for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy's Great Lakes Deposition Program held annually at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Brown is active in her community as a member and former director of the Manchester Historic Society, Inc., a non-profit organization devoted to the preservation of historic Manchester, and serves on the United Way of Allegheny County Women's Leadership Council Committee.