Professional Associations ​
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Member, Montgomery County Bar Association
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Member, Delaware County Bar Association
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Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association
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Member, District of Columbia Bar Association
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Pennsylvania School Board Solicitors Association
Bar Admissions
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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
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District of Columbia Court of Appeals
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Education
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Howard University School of Law
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Tuskegee University
Deanna Williams works on a variety of municipal, school law, zoning, and land use matters for clients around the Philadelphia suburbs.
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Deanna plays a central role in Kilkenny Law’s representation of our school district clients. Deanna actively represents and advises school districts, board members, administrators, supervisors, teachers, and other school personnel and individual staff on the detailed requirements of educational law, provides representation at School Board meetings, and represent our clients on school law matter such as contract disputes, reviews and interpretations, personnel and employment matters, discipline and expulsion hearings, and issues arising under Pennsylvania’s Public School Code, State Ethics Act, the Pennsylvania Sunshine Act.
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Before joining Kilkenny Law, Deanna gained invaluable experience from a judicial clerkship under the Honorable Chief Judge Judith L. Wheat of the Arlington County Circuit Court in Arlington, Virginia. Additionally, Deanna worked in the Labor and Employment Law units of the Defense Information Systems Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, gaining experience in legal writing and litigation, including but not limited to discovery, opinion drafting, and settlement negotiations.
Deanna earned her bachelor’s degree in political science from Tuskegee University and her juris doctor from Howard University School of Law. In law school, Deanna served as the Vice President of the Howard University Public Interest Law Society, Business Manager for the Charles Hamilton Houston Moot Court Team, Membership Intake Coordinator Co-Chair of Epsilon Sigma Iota Sorority, Inc., and as a Student Attorney in the Child Welfare and Family Justice Clinic.
