Philadelphia lawyer Charles Eppolito III, a partner in White and Williams L.L.P., is the vice president of the PBA. He will take office as PBA president in 2018.

Eppolito served as PBA secretary from 2007 until 2010 and as chair of the PBA House of Delegates from 2011 until 2013. He has served as a member of the PBA House of Delegates since 2001. He was the 2002-03 chair of the PBA YLD and is active in the PBA YLD Mock Trial Competition for Pennsylvania high school students.

Currently the co-chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Leadership Institute, Eppolito also served as chair of the PBA Membership Development Committee of which he is the current co-vice chair. He served as the chair of the PBA Quality of Life/Balance Committee, vice chair of the PBA Health Care Law Committee, co-chair of the 2005-06 PBA Annual Meeting Task Force and co-chair of the PBA Midyear Meeting. He received a PBA President's Award in 2009, the PBA YLD Michael K. Smith Excellence in Service Award in 2007, and a PBA Special Achievement Award in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation. He is an investigative panel member for the Pennsylvania Judicial Evaluation Commission.

He has been active in the American Bar Association, serving in its House of Delegates and on the House Select Committee and the Tellers Committee. He also is a member of the ABA's Medical Professional Liability Standing Committee, and the Bioethics and the Law Special Committee.

He served as chair of the Medicine and Law Committee of the ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section and received its Exceptional Achievement Award in 2010. He previously held a number of leadership positions in the ABA's Young Lawyers Division.

A member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, Eppolito is co-chair of its Environmental and Energy Law Committee and previously served on the executive board of the Young Lawyers Division. He is a member of the Montgomery Bar Association and serves on its Medical-Legal Committee. He is a board member of the Justinian Society of Philadelphia.

He has been named a Pennsylvania "Rising Star" attorney numerous times since 2005 by Law & Politics magazine as a result of a survey of his peers. He has been named a "Lawyer on the Fast Track" by Pennsylvania Law Weekly, The Legal Intelligencer and a panel of judges throughout Pennsylvania. He also has been a speaker or panelist for a number of professional programs, including effective trial advocacy, trial strategy and tips, alternative dispute resolution, effective use and cross-examination of medical experts, mentoring, diversity and quality of life/balance. Eppolito served as a Hearing Committee member for the Disciplinary Board of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Eppolito is a cum laude graduate of Villanova University and the Villanova University School of Law.