20 | May/June 2022 | BAEC Bulletin
2022-2023 Elections
Candidates for Director (continued)
Jill is a partner with Rupp Baase Pfalzgraf Cunningham LLC, where she specializes in high-exposure tort and commercial matters, as well as matters affecting school districts and students. Jill counsels schools and students on issues such as Title IX, general discipline, and other academic and athletic issues. She previously oversaw an educational service that assisted nearly 400 school districts throughout New York with policy, code of conduct, and other matters. Jill has worked in the Buffalo legal community since 1999. An upstate New Yorker for her entire life, Jill graduated from Syracuse University College of Law and SUNY Geneseo. She continues her passionate support of SUNY Geneseo today as a member of the Geneseo College Council, which provides advisory, regulatory, and advocacy services on a number of matters affecting the campus community. Jill also continued her participation in college athletic
governance by joining Geneseo’s Roundtable Athletic Association as an alumna. The RAA is a group dedicated to supporting the college’s student athletes. Jill was a direct benefactor of the RAA while a student athlete at Geneseo. Jill was fortunate to have a number of meaningful mentors during her professional life, which prompted her to serve as both a mentor and as a leader of her firm’s mentoring committee. She has served as a mentor for students at SUNY Geneseo and UB Law School, too. She is currently a member of Rupp Baase’s diversity-and-inclusion committee. Jill lives in Lancaster with her husband, John Emmons, and their twin boys. When she is not at a sporting, musical, or event for her sons, Jill enjoys reading, walking her dog, cheering on the Bills and the Bisons, and spending time with friends and family.
Jill Yonkers Partner Rupp Baase Pfalzgraf Cunningham LLC
Candidates for Nominating Committee
Elect two
Elizabeth Kraengel
Anastasia M. McCarthy
Rashied H. McDuffie
Melinda R. Saran
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