Profile:
Justine Andronici is a cum laude graduate of Colgate University (BA 1994), graduated cum laude and Order of the Coif from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (2002), and is a member of the Pennsylvania bar.
Ms. Andronici is a feminist attorney and activist who has been working in the women’s rights movement for well over a decade. Currently, Ms. Andronici is serving as the first-ever domestic violence attorney at the Centre County Women's Resource Center in Pennsylvania, running the Civil Legal Representation Project and representing local victims of domestic violence. She also continues her affiliation with Katz Marshall & Banks, LLP a leading Washington DC based plaintiff’s employment law firm in the new capacity of Of Counsel to the Firm. Drawing upon her extensive professional background as a grassroots leader and activist, as well as her legal experience, Ms. Andronici also regularly serves as a women’s rights legal and policy consultant for national feminist organizations, including the Feminist Majority Foundation.
Prior to her association with Katz Marshall & Banks, Ms. Andronici worked as a reproductive rights attorney for NARAL and as a domestic violence attorney for the Maryland Women’s Law Center. Ms. Andronici has also served as a contract attorney on Dukes v. Wal-Mart, the largest class action gender discrimination case in the history.
Ms. Andronici began her work in the women's rights movement at the Feminist Majority Foundation, where she developed an expertise in grassroots organizing, public relations and political research. After leading the statewide youth effort to defeat an anti-affirmative action initiative on the California ballot in 1996, Ms. Andronici helped the Feminist Majority Foundation develop and launch their campus program, now the largest progressive organizing program of its kind in the United States.
Ms. Andronici regularly lectures and writes on women’s rights law and policy, and has served as adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She is currently serving as co-president of the Nittany Valley Chapter of the National Organization for Women (State College PA), the Pennsylvania NOW Education Foundation Board, and writes a regular legal column for Ms. Magazine. Ms. Andronici has appeared on national television as a commentator on women’s rights issues, particularly supreme court nominations, and has received numerous awards for her leadership and activism including: the Ms. Foundation’s Gloria Steinem Women of Vision Award (1997), and the Alice Paul Award, University of Pennsylvania Association of Woman Faculty, 2002. She is a member of the Massachusetts, Maryland, and District of Columbia Bar
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