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Wildoner-Walbert, Carole J.
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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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2009-01-01 |
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| Name | Carole J. Wildoner-Walbert |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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November 03, 1956
(68 years)
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Modifed | Scott³
Feb 07, 2010 08:04pm |
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| Info | Attorney Walbert has an extensive and wide range of courtroom experience. The first woman appointed as a Carbon County solicitor, she has held a variety of municipal appointments over the years. She also served in a judicial capacity in Carbon County for 17 years as a permanent hearing officer in Domestic Relations, and for many years as a master in divorce and custody hearing officer.
She is currently solicitor for Carbon County Children and Youth Services. Her extensive, private practice actively includes zoning, tax assessment, estate, business, family law, and real estate matters, and she has more than a quarter century of civil and criminal trial experience.
Mrs. Walbert is a past chancellor of the Carbon County Bar Association and has served as a member of its board of directors. She formally chaired its Continuing Legal Education program and Pro Bono project.
She is a member of the American and Pennsylvania Trial Lawyer and Bar Associations and is also admitted and has practiced in the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania. She has served repeatedly, by invitation, as a lecturer on civil trial practice for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
Attorney Walbert is a 1978 graduate of Dickinson College, from which she received an appointment and served as an intern with the United States House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means and was awarded the senior academic scholarship in economics. She received her law degree in 1981 from Villanova University and commenced her career with a litigation practice in the Philadelphia region.
In 1985, she returned to her hometown of Jim Thorpe to pursue her career in private practice. After serving a judicial clerkship with former President Judge John P. Lavelle, she established her Jim Thorpe firm in 1987.
Attorney Walbert has a long history of community activism. She was an early volunteer in the Mauch Chunk Historical Society and other organization's efforts to revitalize the county's tourism industry. In 1988, she was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior to serve as commissioner representing the interest of Carbon County on the Delaware and Lehigh National Canal Corridor, and served on the commission for 10 years.
Over the years, she has participated in many other volunteer organizations serving the county, including Carbon County Friends of Animals, Mauch Chunk Historical Society, Carbon County Environmental Education Center, Jim Thorpe Rotary, CareNet, the Children's Roundtable of Carbon County, and the Jim Thorpe World War I and World War II War Memorial Restoration Committees.
Among others, she has provided pro bono services to the Borough of Summit Hill in recovering the community's Civil War Memorial cannons, the Jim Thorpe Lion's Club Foundation, Carbon County Friends of Animals, and the St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee of Jim Thorpe and Carbon County.
A resident of Jim Thorpe, and a lifelong member of St. Joseph's Church in that community, Mrs. Walbert is married to Benjamin L. Walbert, III, who is a practicing architect. The Walberts have been active in regional historic preservation projects and have restored many distressed properties in the area, as well as promoted community park restoration efforts.
They are the parents of two sons, Benjamin, 20, and Alex, 19. In recent years they have also been sponsors of exchange students through the American Field Service Program, and are currently hosting a young woman from Armenia.
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