Ballard Spahr offices in Washington, D.C. Ballard Spahr offices in Washington, D.C. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

Elected and Appointed

Gawthrop Greenwood announced that attorney and shareholder Patrick M. McKenna was elected chair of the firm's management committee.

At 45 years old, McKenna is the youngest chair of the management committee in the firm's 117-year history.

Before heading the firm's government and education law department, McKenna became a shareholder in 2011.