Judy Scolnick is a graduate of New York University (BA cum laude 1972), Brandeis University (MA 1973) and Boston College Law School (JD summa cum laude, 1976) where she served on the Boston College Industrial and Commercial Law Review. She began her career as a law clerk to the late Honorable Anthony Julian of the United States District Court in Massachusetts and then served as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice from 1977 until 1981. As a trial attorney Ms. Scolnick was the lead counsel in several high-profile employment discrimination lawsuits against various US agencies around the country. She also drafted the policy position followed by all US Attorneys’ offices concerning employment discrimination cases that ensured coordination between the positions of the Civil Rights Division as prosecutor of discrimination cases against private employer and the Civil Division as the defender of employment cases against US agencies. Ms Scolnick then served with the General Counsel’s office of British Airways, where she primarily practiced employment law. Ms. Scolnick also played a primary role in negotiating key operating contracts and obtaining governmental approval of the alliance between British Airways and American Airlines. Ms. Scolnick has lectured and written extensively in the areas of prosecution and defense of Title VII , Americans with Disabilities Act, age discrimination, and compliance with the discrimination provisions of the Air Carrier Access Act. Ms. Scolnick is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.