HARRISBURG (May 25, 1999) -- Nancy H. Fullam, a partner in the Philadelphia law firm of McEldrew and Fullam P.C., was elected to the Pennsylvania Bar Association Board of Governors during the organization�s Annual Meeting held this month in Philadelphia.

One of 12 zone governors who serve on the PBA Board, Fullam will represent Philadelphia lawyers. Her term will expire in 2002.

A member of the PBA House of Delegates and secretary of the PABAR-PAC, Fullam is a past president of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and a current member of its Board of Directors. She is a former chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association Board of Governors, Young Lawyers Section and Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention. She also is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association PAC, a former hearing officer for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and an adjunct faculty member of Temple University School of Law.

Fullam serves on the boards of directors for the Support Center for Child Advocates, the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program and the Lawyers Club of Pennsylvania. She received the Equal Justice Award from Community Legal Services Inc. in Philadelphia and the Award for Distinguished Child Advocacy from the Support Center for Child Advocates in Philadelphia.

Fullam is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Villanova University School of Law.