HARRISBURG (July 22, 2024) — The Honorable Kim D. Eaton will be presented with the 2024 Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Family Law Section Eric Turner Memorial Award during the section’s Winter Meeting January 16-19, 2025, in Pittsburgh.
The Eric Turner Memorial Award honors a lawyer who is dedicated to the practice of family law and who serves as a mentor and teacher to fellow lawyers.
As part of the award, a $1,000 donation can be made to a charity of the honoree’s choosing. Eaton has selected The Shortest Line, an organization that provides pro bono legal representation to minor children who are the subject of difficult, complex and/or high conflict custody cases in the adult Family Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County.
Judge Eaton has been a judge in the Family Division of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas since January 2000 and previously served as Administrative Judge of the Division for six years. Prior to that she was the Supervising Judge of the Adult Family Division.
She attended Penn State University, graduating in 1978 with a B.A. in Journalism and remains an active member of the Penn State Alumni Association. At the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she earned a J.D., Judge Eaton was president of the Class of 1981 and the commencement speaker. Prior to her election to judge, she was shareholder in the firm of Rose, Schmidt, Hasley & DiSalle, PC, where she managed the firm’s matrimonial section.
During her career as lawyer, Judge Eaton served as Chairman of the Allegheny County Bar Association’s Bench Bar Committee (and recipient of the Bench Bar Olbum Award) and the Chair of the Family Law Section’s Public Service Committee, where she co-founded the Pro Se Motions Court program, assisting low-income parties through the court system.
For more information about the PBA Family Law Section, please visit: https://www.pabar.org/site/For-Lawyers/Sections/Family-Law-Section
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