Kathleen M McKenna

McKenna, a partner in Proskauer Rose’s Labor & Employment Law Department, is recognized as one of New York’s most prestigious litigators. She was elected to serve as Chairman for a three-year term at the Catholic, Jesuit college where she received her B.A. in 1975. McKenna is the first female to chair the Board of Trustees in over 20 years, and the second in the school’s 136-year history. Also, she is the first alumna to be elected Chairman. A member of the New Jersey and New York State Bar Associations, she received her J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1978, and graduated summa cum laude from Saint Peter’s College. A native New Yorker, McKenna currently resides in Ridgewood, NJ with her husband, Joseph Vallerini, a 1975 graduate of Saint Peter’s, and their three children