The incoming 94th chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association told members this week her goal for her year-long tenure, beginning Jan. 1, 2021, will be to implement lessons learned by the legal industry in 2020—the role lawyers play in public service, community recovery and racial equity.

“For most of us, this has been the most significant, turbulent time in our lives,” said chancellor-elect Lauren McKenna, a 30-year partner and litigator with Fox Rothschild, in her remarks to the association’s 11,000-lawyer membership at its virtual annual meeting Tuesday. “But it’s in the face of these challenges that we as lawyers have been tested and we know that we must get to work to solve problems.”