HARRISBURG (April 30, 2015) - Bernadette M. Hohenadel of Elizabethtown, a partner in the Lancaster law firm of Nikolaus & Hohenadel LLP, will begin a three-year term on the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Board of Governors at the conclusion of the association's Annual Meeting, May 8 in Philadelphia.

Hohenadel will serve as the PBA zone three governor representing Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York county lawyers.

Hohenadel serves in the PBA House of Delegates and is a member of the executive council of the PBA Commission on Women in the Profession. She is a member of the PBA Editorial and Law-Related Education committees and the PBA Municipal Law and Real Property, Probate & Trust Law sections.

She served as the 2010 president of the Lancaster Bar Association and was a member of its board of directors from 2008 until 2012. She is the chair of the LBA Real Estate Section and a member and past chair of the LBA Municipal Law Section. She is a past chair of the Lancaster Law Review Committee. She is a member of the board of directors of the Lancaster Bar Association Foundation.

Hohenadel is a member of the Lancaster County Association of Realtors Commercial and Industrial Council. She is a board member of the Elizabethtown Area Education Foundation and served on the board of the Coalition for Smart Growth. She also is a member of Women in Real Estate and the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

Hohenadel holds an undergraduate degree from Regis College and a juris doctorate degree from Villanova University School of Law.

Founded in 1895, the Pennsylvania Bar Association 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.