Grace Deon

Grace M. Deon is a Shareholder and a member of the firm's Management Committee. In addition to her concentration in employment law, Grace litigates commercial matters (including but not limited to breach of contract, negligence and fraud) and personal injury based claims. Further, for more than two decades, Grace has represented Pennsylvania school districts in special education matters, including representation at administrative due process hearings and appeals to State and Federal Courts. Grace is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association ("PBA") and the Bucks County Bar Association ('BCBA'). Grace, by appointment, chaired the PBA's Legal Services for Exceptional Children Committee from 2011-2015. In that capacity, she oversaw one of the preeminent statewide conferences in the area of special education. In 2017, she served as Past President of the BCBA Board of Directors having served as President during 2016. Prior to that, she served as Secretary to the Board and as a member of the Board for two terms. Grace received her Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a minor in Philosophy from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia and her Juris Doctor from the Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she received recognition for Distinguished Class Performance in Trial Advocacy from the Honorable Michael Stiles, former Attorney General of the United States District Court for the Eastern District Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Eastburn and Gray, P.C. as a law clerk and then full time, Grace participated in internships with the Office of the U.S. Federal Defender and the Office of the Philadelphia City Solicitor. For nearly 25 years, Grace has acted as the President of the Distribution Committee for the Bucks County Foundation, a community trust of nearly $10 million that oversees grant applications and awards to a variety of charitable organizations in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.