HARRISBURG, Pa. (May 1, 2023) — Kristen B. Hamilton of the Law Office of Eric J. Weisbrod PC, Chambersburg, will become vice president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association at the conclusion of the association’s Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on May 5.
Hamilton will serve as the association’s 2024-25 president-elect and 2025-26 president.
Hamilton is completing her service as co-chair of the PBA Bar Leadership Institute (BLI), which develops future leaders of the association. Hamilton is a 2014-15 graduate of the BLI.
She also is co-vice chair of the PBA Membership Development Committee and a member of the PBA Children’s Rights, Commission on Women in the Profession and Judicial Independence committees.
From 2018 through 2021, Hamilton served on the PBA Board of Governors as a zone governor representing Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York county lawyers.
She is a Life Fellow of the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the PBA.
Active in her county bar association, Hamilton is the current president of the Franklin County Bar Association, chair of the association’s Social Committee and a past chair of the association’s Young Lawyers’ Division. She serves as secretary of the Franklin County Bar Foundation, the Judicial Liaison Committee and the local Custody, Juvenile and Orphans’ Court Rules Committees.
In addition, Hamilton is active in her community. She provides pro bono services to qualifying families in need through Franklin County Legal Services, MidPenn Legal Services and Women in Need. She serves as secretary of the Local Children’s Roundtable for Franklin and Fulton counties. In 2015, she was invited by Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Max Baer to serve on the Statewide Children’s Roundtable, promoting initiatives which strive to improve and positively impact the justice system for children and their families.
Hamilton focuses her Franklin County practice on cases directly impacting the lives of children and families, including all areas of family law, dependency and delinquency, and resentencings for those adults previously sentenced as juveniles for life without the possibility of parole. She also has represented clients in criminal matters, such as prior certification in capital case representation.
Hamilton received her undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College. She was a senior treatment clinical supervisor at Abraxas Youth Center before earning her Juris Doctor from Widener University Commonwealth Law School in Harrisburg. She is a graduate of the Anne Anstine Excellence in Public Service Series, a Pennsylvania leadership program for women.