Additions

Lamb McErlane announce that Steve E. Jarmon joined the firm.

Jarmon joins the firm as a partner with a focus on criminal and civil matters. He spent his legal career practicing primarily criminal law in Chester County and the Greater Philadelphia area.

Jarmon has experience as a criminal defense attorney, beginning his career as a prosecutor for the Chester County District Attorney's Office as an assistant district attorney before transitioning to his trial practice in the private sector.

Jarmon serves as a committee member for the Phoenixville Democratic Committee and on the Phoenixville Human Relations Committee.

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Meyer, Unkovic & Scott added its summer associates for 2019: Azhia Goodwin-Rowe, Nicholas M. Bencsics, and Kelsi E. Robinson.

This is Goodwin-Rowe's second year working as a summer associate with Meyer Unkovic. She recently completed her second year at Duquesne University School of Law, and she received her bachelor's degree in political science from West Virginia University.

Bencsics recently completed his second year at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He received his bachelor's degree from John Carroll University.

Robinson recently completed her first year at Penn State Law. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of La Verne.

Honored

The Pennsylvania Bar Association public utility law section presented its Christianson Award to Cheryl Walker Davis at the Public Utility Law Conference in Harrisburg.

Walker Davis retired from her post as director of the Office of Special Assistants, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission in 2018 after more than 30 years of service.

The award recognizes an individual who made a contribution to the development, improvement and advancement of the profession of public utility law.

Walker Davis spent the majority of her career focusing on the regulation of electric, gas, telephone, water and transportation companies. At the PUC, she directed the legal and technical staff responsible for advising the commission on utility regulation.

Walker Davis is president of the Harrisburg chapter of the American Association of Blacks in Energy, which she co-founded. Walker Davis served as president of the National Conference of Regulatory Attorneys and as chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility

Commissioners staff subcommittee on law, and as a former liaison to its staff subcommittee on international relations.

She is also a member of the National Regulatory Research Institute's research advisory committee.

Throughout her career, Walker Davis hosted and mentored college students through job-shadowing opportunities in legal and technical areas of public utility regulation.

She previously held various offices with the St. Stephen's School board of directors; served on Gettysburg College boards, task forces and commissions; held offices with the local chapters of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.; and received awards for service.