Joanne W. Young

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Managing Partner, Kirstein & Young

Joanne W. Young, Managing Partner of Kirstein &amp; Young, PLLC, is engaged in commercial and federal regulatory law practice, with a focus on the transportation industry and election law. She spent several decades as an equity partner, including with the New York firm Lord Day Lord, Barrett Smith and Baker Hostetler, before founding her present firm.<br /> <br /> Ms. Young was elected President of the Washington Foreign Law Society, the Women’s Bar Association, the International Aviation Club, and the International Aviation Women’s Association. She founded Executive Women in Aviation and served on the Board of the Women’s Bar Foundation.<br /> <br /> She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA), Vice-President of the League of Republican Women of DC, on the Board of the Lawyers Democracy Fund, and the Executive Committee of the D.C. Republican Party.<br /> <br /> Ms. Young was named the 2013 Attorney of the Year by the Boy Scouts of America National Capital Area Council, a 2015 Star of the Bar by the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia, and serves as a Co-Chair for the Kennedy Center Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards.<br /> <br /> She is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and Wesleyan University