SHARON LOPEZ

As the vice president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Lopez will be the first Latina president of the association. She founded the Triquetra Law Firm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 2006. Lopez represents workers and victims of discrimination and civil rights laws. Born in Mexico City, she spent her preschool years in Mexico and Uraguay, South America before moving to the United States where her father became a naturalized citizen. A Widener University School of Law graduate, she began working at the local legal services office, now known as MidPenn Legal Services in her first year of law school.