HARRISBURG (March 3, 2015) � The Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Conference of County Bar Leaders (CCBL) recently honored Gretchen A. Mundorff with its Chief Justice John P. Flaherty Award. Mundorff is a founding partner in the Connellsville law firm of Watson Mundorff Brooks & Sepic LLP.

The Flaherty Award honors the work of an association member that supports and promotes the projects and purposes of the CCBL. It also recognizes a member�s efforts to improve the legal profession, the justice system and the community. Mundorff received the award during the 49th Annual Seminar of the CCBL, Feb. 26 � 28, in Lancaster.

Mundorff was the 2010-11 president of the PBA, the second woman to serve in the role during the 120-year history of the association. During her term as president, she reinstituted the Bar Leadership Institute, which prepares young lawyers for future leadership opportunities within the PBA.

Mundorff represents the PBA in the American Bar Association House of Delegates. She has served the on the PBA Board of Governors as secretary, zone governor and chair of the Young Lawyers Division. A former vice chair of the Commission on Women in the Profession, she also served on the PBA Legal Services to Middle-Income Persons Committee, PBA Leadership Diversity Task Force, PBA Task Force on the Pennsylvania Judiciary and the PBA Legal Access Task Force.

In 2013, Mundorff received the PBA Anne X. Alpern Award, which is presented annually by the PBA Commission on Women in the Profession to a female lawyer or judge who demonstrates excellence in the legal profession and who makes a significant professional impact on women in the law. Established in 1994, the award was named for Anne X. Alpern, Pennsylvania�s attorney general in 1959 and the first woman state attorney general in the nation.

Mundorff served two terms on the board of directors for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the educational arm of the PBA. She is a lecturer and course planner for the institute�s continuing legal education seminars.

Mundorff is a life fellow of the American and Pennsylvania Bar foundations and is a past member of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee.

She currently serves on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Continuing Legal Education Board.

She is a past director of the Fayette County Bar Association.

The CCBL, whose membership includes leaders from county bar associations throughout the state and from the PBA, organizes a yearly educational conference focusing on the exchange of innovative bar association projects and ideas and on the development of mutually-beneficial relationships among bar leaders that improve the legal profession.

Founded in 1895, the PBA strives to promote justice, professional excellence and respect for the law; improve public understanding of the legal system; facilitate access to legal services; and serve the 27,000 lawyers who are members of the association.