Jennifer Craighead Carey

Ms. Craighead Carey has been a partner of Barley Snyder LLP since 2001, and chaired the firm’s Employment Law group from 2005 to 2019. She concentrates her practice in the areas of labor and employment law, as well as school law. She regularly provides advice to employers on a myriad of employment issues and has handled numerous labor arbitrations both in the public and private sector.

She has handled cases at both the administrative level and routinely handles litigation in the Federal District Courts in both the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania. Ms. Craighead Carey regularly practices before the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) as well as administrative agencies throughout the country, handling all manner of discrimination and retaliation claims. Ms. Craighead Carey is a graduate of Dickinson School of Law, with a J.D., cum laude, a comment writer for the Dickinson Law Review, a member of the Woolsack Honor Society recognizing superior academic achievement, and a member of Minority Law Students Association. She has received the designation of being a “Pennsylvania Super Lawyer” from 2010 through 2020.

Ms. Craighead Carey is active in the community and currently a board member of the Lancaster City Alliance and a member of the WellSpan Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee. She is a former board member of the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry and a past chair of United Way of Lancaster County. She has been a director of Fulton Bank since 2012, and has over 20 years of legal, risk management, and employment experience. In addition, she is familiar with the markets in which Fulton operates.