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CONTRIBUTORS
Sonia Augusthy
is the Director of the Office of Civil Rights & Public Trust at the Delaware Depart- ment of Justice. She has been a prosecutor with the State for nine years in various ca- pacities and has tried a variety of criminal cases. Prior to her work as a prosecutor, she
was an associate in a small firm in Wilmington doing insur- ance defense. Augusthy clerked for the Honorable Calvin L. Scott, Jr. of the Delaware Superior Court upon graduation from law school.
Jennifer Penberthy Buckley
is an Associate with Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP. Her practice focuses on em- ployment, intellectual property and contract litigation in the state and federal courts of Delaware. Buckley also provides counseling to clients regarding business and regulatory
issues. Prior to joining Potter Anderson, Buckley was a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Karen L. Valihura of the Supreme Court of Delaware.
Doneene Keemer Damon
is Executive Vice President of Richards, Layton & Finger, co-chair of the firm’s Business Department, and chair of the Cor- porate Trust and Agency Services Group. She focuses her practice on formation and operational issues relating to Delaware stat-
utory and common-law trusts in all types of commercial trans- actions. She also represents banks and trust companies in con- nection with their trust and agency services under Delaware and New York law. Damon has held many leadership positions in the American Bar Association, the Delaware State Bar As- sociation and other legal organizations, and has received nu- merous professional accolades. Serving on the boards of several leading organizations, Damon is currently the Chair of the board of directors of Christiana Care Health System.
Judge Susan C. Del Pesco
graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She came to Delaware when her husband, Tom, completed his Ph.D. and accepted a job in Delaware with the DuPont Company. Judge Del Pesco was a member of Delaware Law School’s first graduating class
in 1975 and the 25th female admitted to the Delaware bar. She was the first woman partner in her law firm, then called Prickett, Jones, Elliott, Kristol & Schnee, the first woman to be President of the Delaware State Bar Association and the first woman to serve as a Judge of the Delaware Superior Court. Judge Del Pesco retired from the bench in 2008 after 20 years. She is honored to have received the highest honor bestowed by the Delaware State Bar Association, the Distinguished Service Award, and to have been inducted into the Delaware Women’s Hall of Fame.
Judge Natalie Haskins
received her B.A. in English from the Uni- versity of Delaware and her J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law. After working as an associate with Morris, Nichols, Arsht and Tunnell, Judge Haskins worked as Deputy Attorney Gen-
eral in both the Criminal and Family divisions of the Dela- ware Department of Justice. She also worked with the Office of Child Advocate, representing children in the child welfare system. Judge Haskins also served as an Assistant Public De- fender, representing juveniles in delinquency proceedings and adults charged with domestic violence offenses. In 2015, Judge Haskins was nominated by then-Gov. Jack Markell to serve as a judge on the Delaware Family Court.
Kathy Jennings
graduated from Mount Pleasant High School, University of Delaware and Vil- lanova University Law School before join- ing the Delaware Department of Justice as one of only two women in the Criminal Division’s Wilmington office at the time.
Over her career, Jennings has prosecuted scores of cases, in- cluding domestic violence, sexual assaults and homicide cases. Throughout her career, she has served as State Prosecutor and Chief Deputy Attorney General. Jennings’ work has included strengthening gun laws, forming the Crime Strategies Unit under the leadership of Attorney General Biden, increasing the use of police body cameras, securing funds to provide Narcan to police, helping to create the Child Victim Unit and having successfully sought criminal-justice reform efforts such as bail reform and reform of the habitual-offender laws. She took of- fice as the Attorney General in 2019.
Kate S. Keller
is the Director of the Medicaid Fraud Con- trol Unit at the Delaware Department of Jus- tice. In that role, she manages attorneys and special investigators tasked with prosecuting Medicaid fraud and patient abuse and neglect cases statewide. In 2018, Keller was sworn in
as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Delaware. Prior to joining the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, she was a prosecutor in the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division for seven years. Keller began her career as a law clerk for the Honorable Calvin L. Scott, Jr. of the Superior Court. She is a graduate of the University of Delaware and Delaware Law School. She is on the Board of Editors for Delaware Lawyer.
Jennifer Leonard
is the Associate Dean for Professional En- gagement and Director of the Center on Professionalism at Penn Law. Leonard works with law students and alumni to develop the skills that will help them thrive in a rapidly changing profession. She has worked as a
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