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Three Bar Association members have been named to positions on the Board of the Berks
County Community Foundation. Susan Denaro, Esquire, and Gabriella G. Raful,
Esquire, were appointed to the Foundation's Board of Directors. Michael L. Mixell,
Esquire, was elected as Assistant Treasurer of the Community Foundation.
Mixell is a partner at Barley Snyder, where he advises clients in the areas of corporate
succession and estate planning, as well as banking and commercial, corporate, and real
estate matters. He has extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions for privately
controlled businesses and nonprofits. Mixell also represents commercial and nonprofitlending institutions.
Denaro is an attorney at Georgeadis Setley. Denaro has practiced law for 31 years,
primarily in the area of estate planning/administration and adoption. She also handles
guardianship, real estate, mediations, and family law matters. She is the Solicitor for
the Prothonotary of Berks County, a position she has held for 26 years. Denaro serves on
the boards of the Yocum Institute and Co-County Wellness Services. She is an honorary
board member of both the Wyomissing Public Library and the LGBT Center of Greater
Reading. She is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Reading.
Raful is a Senior Partner at Galfand Berger, LLP, where she represents injured clients
in the areas of workers' compensation, personal injury, products liability, and social
security disability. A native of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Raful is fluent in
Spanish. Raful is passionate about immigrant rights and injured workers. Raful is a past
board member of the Berks County Bar Association, where she still serves as Chair of the
Minority Law Section. The section's purpose is to promote full and equal participation
of minorities in the justice system. Because of her contribution to community and her
extensive pro bono work, the Berks County Bar Association awarded Raful its 2017
Presidential Award of Merit.

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The Berks County Bar Association Softball Team routed
each of its opponents in the Greater Reading Young
Professionals Softball Tournament on August 16. Young
Lawyers Section President Jordan Fegley and YLS
members Susanna Fultz, Kelsey Frankowski and Sara
Haines Clipp led the squad to the tournament sweep at the
Brookline softball fields off Meade Street and McArthur
Avenue in Reading's 18th Ward. The tournament raised
funds for Habitat for Humanity Berks County.
Suzanne Palmer, Esquire,
has been promoted to Associate
Professor of Business and
Economics at Albright College
where she teaches courses in
business law and corporate
sustainability and is the Pre-Law
Advisor. Suzanne received her
undergraduate degree from Lafayette College, J.D. from
Boston University Law School, and LL.M. in Law &
Economics from George Mason University School of Law.
She serves on the Legal Academics and Legal Transitions
Committees of the PBA.


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