Shollenberger to receive
Community Service Award
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Timothy A. Shollenberger, Esq. |
Timothy A. Shollenberger, a founding partner
in the Harrisburg law firm of Shollenberger & Januzzi, LLP, and Past
President of PaTLA, has been selected as the 2002 recipient of PaTLA�s
Community Service Award. The award was created in 2000 to honor a trial
lawyer who has made an outstanding contribution to his or her community. Shollenberger was chosen for the award due to
his extraordinary work with the American Heart Association/PaTLA New
Lawyer Section Anti-Smoking Mock Trial Campaign. The campaign is designed
to teach school children the dangers of smoking, and get them to pledge
not to use tobacco. In announcing Shollenberger as this year�s
honoree, PaTLA President David Lutz said, �Tim Shollenberger�s
commitment to the children of this state is unparalleled. His
extraordinary work with the anti-smoking mock trials and in the community
is a level of service for which all trial lawyers should strive.� For the past six years, Shollenberger has
taken the lead for the Capital Region Division of the American Heart
Association with a tobacco education program geared toward elementary
school children. When he was president, Shollenberger enlisted support
from fellow trial lawyers from PaTLA to take the campaign statewide. With
the help of PaTLA�s New Lawyer Section, programs have been held in
schools in Allentown/Bethlehem, Erie, Harrisburg (East and West shore),
Philadelphia and its suburbs, Pittsburgh, Wilkes-Barre, and Scranton. Shollenberger said that through the Mock Trial
Program, the Heart Association, PaTLA, and other volunteers have been able
to reach out in an important way to elementary and middle school kids to
teach them about the risks of smoking and using tobacco-related products.
�Our children are being forced to make important decisions-like whether
or not to smoke or use tobacco products- at an earlier age than ever,�
Shollenberger said. �Through this program, trial lawyers have come
together to help our kids make the right choices.� In
2001, Shollenberger received both the United Way Capital Region and the
Central Pennsylvania Tobacco Free Coalition�s Volunteer of the Year
awards for his work with children on the perils of tobacco use as well as
a citation from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Shollenberger is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dickinson College (1978) and received his J.D. in 1981 from the Dickinson School of Law. He is a past president of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association and in 1996 served as the first President of the Central Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. In 1997, he was appointed by the Supreme Court as Chairperson of an Attorney Hearing Panel for the Disciplinary Board and served as a Hearing Committee Member from 1992 through 1996. In 1998, Shollenberger was the co-recipient of PaTLA�s prestigious Milton D. Rosenberg Award for outstanding service to the organization. ### |