Westmoreland Bar Association
The Westmoreland Bar Association is among the oldest, continuous professional organizations of lawyers in Pennsylvania. This voluntary association is comprised of approximately 500 attorneys who practice law primarily in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Our mission is to continue a long-standing tradition of fostering excellence in professional service by our members to their clients and to the general community while engendering respect, civility and camaraderie among the members of the Bench and Bar.
Our plan is to have Westmoreland County lawyers view the WBA as essential to a successful practice. Members will enjoy a more rewarding professional experience because of the bar's valuable programming, the sense of community, and the bar's engagement with the community-at-large.
2026-2027 Westmoreland Bar Association Board of Directors
President
Adam J. Long
Long & Long LLC
President-Elect
Kelly M. Eshelman
Eshelman Law Office, LLC
Vice President
Kristen C. Weidus
Ruder Law Offices
Director
John Eric Bumbaugh
Bumbaugh George Prather DeDiana
Director
Peter P. Cherellia
Director
Jacquelyn A. Knupp
District Attorney
Past President
Leo J. Ciaramitaro
Westmoreland County District Attorney's Office
Treasurer
James A. Horchak
Quatrini Law Group
Staff
Executive Director/Secretary
Alahna O'Brien
Westmoreland Bar Association
Assistant to the Executive Director
Brit Poblete
Westmoreland Bar Association
Publications Specialist
Susan C. Zellner
Westmoreland Bar Association
Legal Services Coordinator
Anna Morcheid
Westmoreland Bar Association
Past Presidents of the Westmoreland Bar Association
| 2025-2026 | Leo J. Ciaramitaro |
| 2024-2025 | Angelea Allen Mitas |
| 2023-2024 | Maureen Kroll |
| 2022-2023 | Eric E. Bononi |
| 2021-2022 | Judith Potoka Petrush |
| 2020-2021 | Scott E. Avolio |
| 2019-2020 | Joyce Novotny-Prettiman |
| 2018-2019 | John M. Ranker |
| 2017-2018 | Timothy C. Andrews |
| 2016-2017 | John M. Noble |
| 2015-2016 | Maria E. Soohey |
| 2014-2015 | Joseph W. Lazzaro |
| 2013-2014 | John K. Greiner |
| 2012-2013 | David S. DeRose |
| 2011-2012 | Michael J. Stewart |
| 2010-2011 | Donald J. Snyder, Jr. |
| 2009-2010 | James R. Antoniono |
| 2008-2009 | Barbara J. Christner |
| 2007-2008 | James E. Whelton, Jr. |
| 2006-2007 | Rebecca A. Brammell |
| 2005-2006 | James R. Silvis |
| 2004-2005 | Robert I. Johnston |
| 2003-2004 | Aaron M. Kress |
| 2002-2003 | Timothy J. Geary |
| 2001-2002 | John M. Campfield |
| 2000-2001 | Diane E. Murphy |
| 1999-2000 | Richard F. Flickinger |
| 1998-1999 | Daniel Joseph |
| 1997-1998 | Gary Falatovich |
| 1996-1997 | Marnie Abraham |
| 1995-1996 | Wesley T. Long |
| 1994-1995 | Denis P. Zuzik |
| 1993-1994 | Stuart J. Horner, Jr. |
| 1992-1993 | William J. McCabe |
| 1991-1992 | James E. Kelley, Jr. |
| 1990-1991 | Richard H. Galloway |
| 1989-1990 | Jack L. Bergstein |
| 1988-1989 | Vincent J. Quatrini, Jr. |
| 1987-1988 | Kenneth B. Burkley |
| 1986-1987 | H. Reginald Belden, Jr. |
| 1985-1986 | John M. O'Connell, Jr. |
| 1984-1985 | William F. Caruthers |
| 1983-1984 | Edgar T. Hammer, Jr. |
| 1982-1983 | Dante G. Bertani |
| 1981-1982 | Leslie J. Mlakar |
| 1980-1981 | Ned J. Nakles |
| 1979-1980 | Leonard A. Redlich |
| 1978-1979 | S. Wayne Whitehead |
| 1977-1978 | B. Earnest Long |
| 1976-1977 | Morrison F. Lewis, Jr. |
| 1975-1976 | Robert J. Milie |
| 1974-1975 | H. Nevin Wollam |
| 1973-1974 | Daniel Myshin |
| 1972-1973 | David W. Cook |
| 1971-1972 | Richard J. Flickinger |
| 1970-1971 | P. Louis DeRose |
| 1969-1970 | Edgar P. Herrington, Jr. |
| 1968-1969 | John M. Noel |
| 1967-1968 | Vincent E. Williams |
| 1966-1967 | Wayne R. Donahue |
| 1965-1966 | John K. Best |
| 1964-1965 | George W. Lamproplos |
| 1963-1964 | Oliver S. Shields |
| 1962-1963 | Maurice Claster |
| 1961-1962 | H. Reginald Belden |
| 1960-1961 | Louis Sensenich |
| 1959-1960 | Robert W. Smith |
| 1958 | Louis Claster |
| 1957 | Vincent R. Smith |
| 1956 | Harold A. Stewart |
| 1955 | Paul K. McCormick |
| 1954 | Marquis M. Smith |
| 1953 | John M. Horn |
| 1952 | Paul M. Robinson |
| 1951 | Fred B. Trescher |
| 1950 | William H. Kahanowitz |
| 1949 | Paul M. Robinson (May-Dec) |
| 1949 | Fred B. Trescher (Jan-Apr) |
| 1948 | Alex McConnell |
| 1947 | Albert S. Yoder |
| 1946 | Robert W. Smith |
| 1945 | James Gregg |
| 1944 | Benjamin H. Thompson |
| 1943 | Howard H. Whitehead |
| 1941-1942 | Rabe F. Marsh |
| 1939-1940 | R.E. Best |
| 1938 | H.E. Marker |
| 1936-1937 | H.H. Dinsmore |
| 1934-1935 | Charles C. Crowell |
| 1932-1933 | Sidney J. Potts |
| 1930-1931 | Curtis H. Gregg |
| 1929 | John E. Kunkle |
| 1928 | James Gregg (Interim President) |
| 1927-1928 | J.R. Smith |
| 1925-1926 | David A. Miller |
| 1923-1924 | James S. Beacom |
| 1921-1922 | Albert H. Bell |
| 1919-1920 | John N. Boucher |
| 1917-1918 | Jeffry W. Taylor |
| 1915-1916 | S.A. Kline |
| 1913-1914 | Paul H. Gaither |
| 1911-1912 | James S. Moorhead |
| 1898-1910 | The Hon. David S. Atkinson |
| 1886-1897 | The Hon. H.P. Laird |
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