Justine F. Andronici is an accomplished attorney with unique expertise in victim advocacy. She has built her career working in civil rights, women’s rights and employee rights and most recently has joined with State College, PA attorney Andrew Shubin to represent victims of sexual abuse in the Penn State/Jerry Sandusky civil cases. Ms. Andronici has significant expertise in representing victims of sexual abuse and understands the importance of providing sensitive and respectful representation to the courageous victims who come forward seeking justice.

Ms. Andronici is a 2002 cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she studied civil rights law as a Sparer Public Interest Law Scholar, and was an Associate Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. She was selected to the University of Pennsylvania Law School Order of the Coif, and received numerous academic and advocacy awards, including the G. Newton Greene Memorial Prize, faculty prize for the highest grade in torts, the Benjamin R. Jones faculty prize for Concern for Humanity & The Law, and the Alice Paul Award from the University of Pennsylvania Association of Women Faculty. Ms. Andronici earned her B.A. cum laude with honors in Political Science from Colgate University in 1994.

After completing a Georgetown Law Women Law and Public Policy Fellowship in 2003, Ms. Andronici began her legal career as a victim’s rights attorney at the Maryland Women’s Law Center, representing victims of domestic and sexual abuse. In 2006, she joined the firm of Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP, where she worked on broad range of significant civil rights and employee rights cases until 2009.

Ms. Andronici live in central Pennsylvania, where she serves as the founding Director of the Centre County Women’s Resource Center’s Civil Legal Representation Project, a legal assistance project that advises and represents victims of domestic and sexual violence in family law and immigration matters.

Ms. Andronici also serves as a legal and advocacy consultant for leading national women’s rights organizations and has worked on large class-action discrimination cases, including Dukes v. Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest ever class-action gender-discrimination suit. She has developed and taught courses in sex discrimination and the law and has served as adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Andronici is also a contributing writer and Advisory Board Member for Ms. Magazine and has served on the National Board of the National Organization for Women (NOW).

Ms. Andronici has also appeared on Fox News, MSNBC, CSPAN and radio stations as a legal commentator.