Background

Kris A. Vanderman began practicing law in Perryopolis, Fayette County, Pennsylvania in 1977 after clerking for the Law Firm of Murphy and France since 1975 in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. (Austin J. Murphy was then a State Senator, later elected to the US Congress.) He became a partner in Murphy, France and Vanderman in 1978 and in 1981 started Vanderman Law Offices with offices in Charleroi and Perryopolis, adding a McMurray Office in 1983. In 1986 he organized Accelerated Settlements, Inc., a full service, independent real estate title insurance company. He has been a licensed real estate title agent since 1985.

 

Mr. Vanderman graduated from Alderson Broaddus College in West Virginia in 1974; the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1977; the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (conducted at the University of North Carolina School of Law Chapel Hill) in 1985.

 

He was admitted to the Washington County Court of Common Pleas ( Pennsylvania) in 1977, the Pennsylvania Superior Court (1977); the United States Federal Court-Western District (1977), the United States Federal Court-Western District Bankruptcy Division (1978), the Third Circuit Court of Appeals (1979) and the United States Supreme Court (1986). (In accordance with the rules of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, all attorneys admitted before it are eligible to practice in any of the 67 counties within the Commonwealth.)

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BAR ASSOCIATION AND SECTION MEMBERSHIPS:

Washington County Bar Association since 1977
Allegheny County Bar Association since 1980
Pennsylvania Bar Association since 1977

Positions Held:

● State Treasurer of the General Practice Section - 1988
● State Secretary of the General Practice Section – 1989
● Appointed Ag Law Committee – 2003 to date

 

ADDITIONAL LEGAL CREDENTIALS :

Past member of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyer’s Association

Nominated to the American Arbitration Association Commercial Panel of Arbitrators - 1988.

Lecturer for Westmoreland County Community College for Real Estate Investment and Business Law (1985, 1986)

Lecturer for Real Estate Law; Realtor’s Licensing Seminar (1987)

Lecturer for S.C.O.R.E. in conjunction with the U.S. Small Business Administration associated with start-up businesses (1984 through 1999)

Lecturer for Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights (1990)

Lecturer in Oil and Gas Lease issues (2008)

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PAST OR CURRENT SOLICITORSHIPS :

Mid Mon Valley Water Pollution Control Authority (1987 through date)

Perryopolis Area Joint Authority and its predecessor, the Municipal Authority of the Borough of Perryopolis (1981 to 2003)

Washington County Builder’s Association (1995 through date)

Mon Valley Builder’s Association (1987 to 1995)

Bentleyville Municipal Authority from 2002 through date (Co Solicitor)

Mon Valley Economic Revitalization Committee (1986 to 2001)

Accelerated Settlements, Inc., a title abstract and insurance company (1986 to 2001)

United Way of the Mon Valley (1985 to 1991)

Perryopolis Area Ambulance Service, Inc. (1982 to 1987)

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CIVIC, CHARITIBLE AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIPS:

Kiwanis Club (1979 to 1989), Vice-President (1985)
United Way of the Mon Valley

The Charleroi Chamber of Commerce (now the Mon Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce) 1978 through date

The Peters Township Chamber of Commerce (1983 to date)

The Greater Washington Chamber of Commerce (membership through the JNK Ranch) (2005 through date)

The Mon Valley Progress Council, Inc.

Washington County , PA 4-H – Assistant Leader, Advisor, Vet Science Instructor (1991 to 2002)

Junior Achievement of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Advisor (first attorney to ever volunteer in the Pittsburgh region) (1982 to 1984)

Greater Pittsburgh Board of Realtors (past member)

Washington County Board of Realtors (past member)

Washington County Builder’s Association (1995 to date)

Pennsylvania Builders Association (1985 to date)

Chairman of the Board of Mon Valley T.O.U.R., Inc. (1986 , 1987)

(founding Charter Member with a group of unpaid volunteers formed in 1986 to assist the local tourist industry (this was done without any State or local funding)

Elected to the Board of the Quail Run Condominium Association, McMurray, PA (1995, 1996), a 300 unit townhouse development

Member of the Tri-State Historical Steam Engine Society directly associated with the preservation of antique farming practices and machinery until dissolved 2005

Co-Owner (with spouse) of the JNK Ranch, Bentleyville, PA, a commercial 40 head cow/calf operation. Began year 2000 as a start up ranch implementing intensive rotational grazing, selective cross breeding and producing natural, grass fed beef

Co-partner in Redstone Cattle Co., Fayette City, PA – 90 head commercial cow/calf operation (1994 to 2002)

Washington County Cattlemen’s Association (2000 to date)

Pennsylvania Cattlemen’s Association (2000 to date)

National Cattlemen’s Association (2000 to date)