Skip Greevy to Become Zone Governor
From the May 19, 2008 edition of Pennsylvania Bar News:
Four new PBA zone governors will take office at the close of the PBA Annual Meeting June 6 in Hershey. All will serve three-year terms.
Charles F. “Skip” Greevy III, Zone 4
Williamsport lawyer Charles F. “Skip” Greevy III will represent Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Tioga and Union county lawyers. Greevy is a senior partner in the Williamsport firm of Greevy & Taylor. He has been a member of the PBA House of Delegates since 2001 and served as a director on the council of the PBA Solo and Small Firm Practice Section. He is a member of the PBA Family Law Section and has served as a member of the PBA Membership Development Committee and the PBA Legal Services to Persons with Disabilities Committee. He has also served on the faculty of a variety of Pennsylvania Bar Institute courses in the areas of juvenile justice and children’s issues.
He is a past president of the Lycoming Law Association and served on its board of directors from 1988 until 1999. He is a charter member and former chair of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Multi-Disciplinary ream for Child Abuse/Neglect in Lycoming County. He is a member of the American Inns of Court, Charles F. Greevy chapter. having served as its president from 2000 to 2002.
Over the course of his tenure as solicitor for Lycoming County Children and Youth Services, he has participated in over 33,000 separate court proceedings involving hundreds of families and thousands of children. In 2003, the Pennsylvania State Foster Parent Association selected Greevy as the “Community Support Person of the Year” for his more than 25 years of outstanding service and support to Pennsylvania’s families and children. In 2004, the National Foster Parent Association awarded Greevy its “Services and Recognition Award,” which was followed by the declaration of May 28, 2004, as “Charles ‘Skip’ Greevy Day” in Lycoming County.
Greevy served on the legislative committee that drafted Pennsylvania’s Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1998 and participated in a panel for the Pennsylvania Juvenile Court Judges’ training session and implementation of ASFA in 1999.
Active in his community, Greevy was selected “Outstanding Young Man of the Year in Lycoming County” in 1978 by the Williamsport Jaycees and served on the Jaycee Board of Directors. He has been a member of the Williamsport Kiwanis Club since 1981, serving on its board of directors and as its president. He was also the lieutenant governor of Kiwanis Division 12 and of the Pennsylvania District in l989-90.
Greevy is on the board of directors of the Lycoming County Health Improvement Coalition. Since 1984, he has served as a board member of the Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc., which focuses on the needs of community nonprofit organizations of children and their families. He is a member of the John F. Laedlein Masonic Lodge #707 and of the Scottish Rite in the Valley of Williamsport, and served as Thrice Potent Master of the Lodge of Perfection in 1993-94. He is a member of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Williamsport and has served as vice president of its council.
Greevy received his B.A. from Denison University and his J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law. He and his wife, Gloria, live in Williamsport. They have two adult children, Chad and Megan, and one grandchild.
