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Sara Austin (Col ’87 CM)

Other announcement on May 8, 2017

Sara A. Austin (Col ’87) will become immediate past president of the 27,000-member Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) at the conclusion of the PBA Annual Meeting, May 12, in Pittsburgh.

Austin is ending her term as the first woman PBA president from York County and the third woman president in the 121-year history of the PBA.

Sara Austin (Col ’87 CM)

Other announcement on June 6, 2016

Sara Austin (Col ’87 CM) has been elected president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. Ms. Austin is the founder of the Austin Law Firm in York, Pennsylvania, where she concentrates her practice on labor and employment, homeowner and condo association, corporate and bankruptcy law, in addition to estate and succession planning. She has also served as president of the York County Bar Association and is a Pennsylvania delegate to the American Bar Association. She and her husband, Jeffery Schlaline, live in York.

Sara Austin (Col ’87 CM)

Other announcement on May 21, 2015

Sara Austin (Col ’87 CM) is president-elect of the Pennsylvania Bar Association; she will become president in 2016. She is a partner in Austin Law Firm, located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Ms. Austin served on the organization’s board of governors from 2009 until 2012 as the zone governor for Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York counties. She is a past president of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the continuing legal education arm of the PBA, and is chair-elect of the bar association’s solo and small-firm practice section and is treasurer of the PBA commission on women in the profession.