Leadership

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Monique Myatt Galloway

Acting City Solicitor

Monique Myatt Galloway is the acting City Solicitor, the City of Philadelphia’s chief legal officer, and serves as acting general counsel to the Mayor and her Administration, City Council, and all City departments, agencies, boards, and commissions. The City’s Law Department employs over 340 lawyers and professional staff practicing in diverse areas such as federal, state, and local agency litigation, commercial and real estate transactions, tax, regulatory law, social services, and legislation.

She previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney since November 2023 in the Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the office, Galloway served as Regional Counsel for two federal agencies in the Mid-Atlantic – the U.S. General Services Administration and the Federal Transit Administration. At GSA, Galloway led a team of attorneys responsible for advising Senior Executives on real estate, commercial lease management, federal acquisition, labor, and environmental laws.

Galloway began her legal career as a trial attorney with the Department of the Navy, Office of General Counsel in Washington, D.C., and later worked in Philadelphia and surrounding area as a litigation associate at both a global defense law firm, where she represented manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies as well as individual pro bono clients, and a national class action law firm, where she represented plaintiffs and class members in consumer protection and employment law matters. Galloway is also a former federal judicial law clerk to the Honorable Cynthia M. Rufe of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Throughout her career, Galloway has remained devoted to the Bar and the community. In September 2017, Galloway was appointed to the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission by the Honorable Jay Costa, Minority Leader of the Pennsylvania Senate, and served a two-year term.

Galloway also serves as an adjunct professor at Temple University School of Law and Drexel University School of Law. In 2014, Galloway served as President of the Barristers’ Association of Philadelphia, Inc., one of the largest affinity bar associations in Pennsylvania. She is also a former Board Member of the Public Interest Law Center.

Galloway has served on numerous committees, including the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention and the Bylaws Committee as well as the Third Circuit Lawyers Advisory Committee.

In 2019, Galloway received the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Partnering for Excellence Award. In 2018, she received the AARP’s Access to Justice Champion Award.

Galloway received her Juris Doctorate (J.D.), cum laude, from Thurgood Marshall School of Law, where she was Managing Editor of the Law Review. She also received her LL.M. in Trial Advocacy from Temple University, and her B.B.A. in Accounting from Texas Southern University. Galloway is married to Ade Galloway, a fellow attorney, and together they are raising two teenage boys.

Here civic commitment to our communities extends beyond the law. Galloway is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Sorority, Incorporated, Phi Beta Kappa Chapter, the Philadelphia Chapter of the Links, Incorporated, and Jack and Jill of America, Incorporated, Montgomery County, Pa. Chapter.

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Meghan Goddard, (she/her)

First Deputy City Solicitor

(215) 683-5131

Meghan.Goddard@phila.gov

As the First Deputy City Solicitor, Meghan Goddard is responsible for assisting the City Solicitor in the oversight and leadership of the Law Department. Based on her extensive legal background, Meghan provides litigation support and consultation on significant cases and other matters impacting City-wide initiatives, programs, and policies.

Prior to this role, Meghan served as a Divisional Deputy City Solicitor in the Child Welfare Unit for over five years. In this role, she represented the Department of Human Services on Juvenile Justice issues ranging from law and policy, oversight of Philadelphia’s secure detention center (Philadelphia Juvenile Justice Services Center) and shared case (dependent and delinquent) youth. Additionally, she handled cases involving older youth in dependent care as well as youth in Philadelphia’s Juvenile Human Trafficking Court, known as WRAP (Working to Restore Adolescents’ Power) Court, which aims to help youth in court system who have been identified as victims of commercial sexual exploitation/human trafficking.

Prior to her role as a Divisional Deputy City Solicitor, Meghan served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Trial Division for the City of Philadelphia for over ten years. During her tenure at the District Attorney’s Office, she served as a trial attorney in the Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit, specializing in prosecuting cases involving, sexual assault, child physical abuse and neglect, human trafficking, intimate-partner violence, and elder abuse and neglect.

Meghan graduated with Honors from York College of Pennsylvania with a degree in Political Science and received her Juris Doctor degree from Widener University Commonwealth Law School where she graduated with Honors.

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Sam Scavuzzo, (he/him)

Chief of Staff

(215) 686-6763

samuel.scavuzzo@phila.gov

As Chief of Staff, Sam provides support to the City Solicitor and counsels City departments on significant issues impacting City initiatives, programs and policies. He assists the Solicitor on a variety of special projects, including many cross-unit initiatives.

Sam began working with the City Law Department in 2019 in the Real Estate Division of the Tax & Revenue Unit where he was most recently a Deputy City Solicitor. In this role, his caseload mostly involved handling real estate tax assessment appeals in the Court of Common Pleas. Additionally, Sam has coordinated the consolidated complaint project with attorneys from the Regulatory Law Unit, Real Estate and Development Unit, and Code and Public Nuisance Litigation Unit to target nuisance property owners with numerous liabilities across many properties. The project has collected $3.5 million in City debt since its inception.

Outside of his litigation work, Sam frequently advised the Department of Revenue and City Council on tax legislation and collaborated with our Legislation and Legal Counsel Unit on drafting tax ordinances and regulations. Sam also recently completed his two-year term as co-chair of the Law Department’s Professional Development Committee, which launched a mentorship program under his leadership. One of Sam’s favorite aspects of the Law Department is collaborating with other units, and learning all the many ways our brilliant attorneys serve the City.

Sam is a graduate of Drexel Law School and La Salle University, where he majored in journalism and political science. After law school, Sam clerked for the Hon. Jack Sabatino in the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, and Associate Justice Faustino Fernandez-Vina in the New Jersey Supreme Court. Prior to becoming an attorney, Sam worked as a reporter and editor for local news website Patch.com, where he primarily reported on Roxborough and Manayunk. His work has also appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Press of Atlantic City, and (improbably) People Magazine.

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Andrew Richman, (he/him)

Chair, Compliance & Legislation Group

(215) 683-5067

andrew.richman@phila.gov

As chair of the Compliance & Legislation Group, Andrew oversees the following:

Right-to-Know Unit
HIPAA & Privacy Law Unit
E-Discovery Unit
Communications
Legislation Unit

Andrew has been in the department since 2009 and from 2016-2023 was the Chief of Staff to the City Solicitor. Previously, Andrew worked as a Deputy City Solicitor in the Code Enforcement Unit. Andrew is a 2009 graduate of the Temple University Beasley School of Law and holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. For as long as he can remember, he has been on the board of the Spruce Hill Community Association and enjoys refereeing his daughter’s swim meets on the weekends.

Ji Jun

Chair, Corporate & Tax

(215) 685-6160

ji.jun@phila.gov

Ji Jun joined the Law Department as counsel to the Airport in 2006 as a new law school graduate after deciding during her summer internship that this is where she wanted to work. Since then, she has handled a wide range of legal matters advising clients across the City.

As the Chief of the Regulatory Law Unit, Ji led a team of 21 attorneys across four divisions- Airport, Water, Environmental and Right-of-Way and Utilities. She was responsible for overseeing various commercial transactions, real estate matters, regulatory compliance and enforcement, environmental counseling and litigation, airport law, utility law, energy law, board counseling and rate cases. Before that, Ji was Divisional Deputy City Solicitor in the Water Division for two years after having served as in-house counsel to the Water Department for over 13 years where she handled all legal matters supporting the utility’s business operations. Ji is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Villanova University School of Law.

Ji is dedicated to active and impactful leadership in the office and in the community. Ji was Co-chair of the Department’s DEI Committee in its inaugural years. She also serves as the Chair of Membership Committee for the Delaware Valley Environmental Inn of Court and Co-Chair of the Environmental and Energy Law Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Outside of the office, Ji is a board member and a devoted volunteer with the Collective Success Network, a non-profit organization that supports and empowers first-generation, low-income college students.

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Tianna K. Kalogerakis, (she/her)

Director of Professional Development, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

(215) 683-5005

Tianna.Kalogerakis@phila.gov

As Director of Professional Development, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Tianna K. Kalogerakis assesses the needs of the Law Department and develops strategies, programs and systems to advance the Law Department’s goal to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the organization, and to enhance the skill sets of lawyers and staff.

Before joining the Law Department, Tianna was an associate at Kang Haggerty LLC where she handled commercial litigation and business disputes. Prior to Kang Haggerty, Tianna served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Lillian Harris Ransom, first at the Court of Common Pleas, then at the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

An active member of the Philadelphia community, she is a Past President of the Barristers’ Association of Philadelphia, Incorporated and held several leadership positions in the Barristers, including serving as Chair of the 2017 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Memorial Breakfast. Tianna also served on the Executive Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division as an Appointed Member.

Tianna earned her Juris Doctorate from Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law and her undergraduate degree from the University of Florida.

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Ava Schwemler, (she/they)

Director of Communications

(215) 683-2974

ava.schwemler@phila.gov

Ava is the Director of Communications for the Law Department. She oversees the development of internal and external communications to enhance awareness of the Law Department, supports recruiting and DEI efforts, and fulfills press requests in coordination with clients in the City of Philadelphia.

She worked in the City of Burlington, Vermont’s Planning & Zoning Department as a Planning Intern, where she assisted with the drafting and publication of the 2019 update to the city’s Comprehensive Plan, planBTV. She also gained experience as a Clerk in the Office of the City Assessor, supporting communications to local business owners and managing property tax registrations.

As the Communications Coordinator for the City of Philadelphia’s Philly Counts Initiative, she worked to ensure a complete and accurate 2020 Census count. In this role, she also supported the City’s COVID-19 emergency response and supported the creation of the COVID-19 Community Response Captain Training.

Prior to the Law Department, she was the Communications and Community Partnership Manager at Friends of the Rail Park, where she led strategic communications, developed collaborative community programming, and supported planning efforts for future phases of the park.

Originally from Philadelphia, Ava is a graduate of the University of Vermont, where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Public Communications with a minor in Green Building and Sustainable Community Design.

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Lisa Harvey, (she/her)

Chair, Social Services Group

(215) 683-5141

lisa.harvey@phila.gov

As chair of the Social Services Group, Lisa Harvey oversees the following units:

Child Welfare
Health & Adult Service

Lisa possesses over 25 years of legal and government experience. Prior to the Law Department, she spent 18 years as an Assistant District Attorney with the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office (DAO) where she prosecuted cases in multiple divisions, including the major trial unit. She served as the Chief of the Juvenile Court Unit, where she trained and supervised a team of 20 prosecutors and 16 support staff in all aspects of juvenile delinquency, including trial strategy, investigations, and dispositions. Before becoming Chief, Lisa was the Director of Juvenile Diversion for the DAO where she developed and implemented policies related to diversion programs. Lisa expanded the Youth Aid Panel Diversion Program by diverting more Philadelphia youth from the formal judicial system.

Lisa is passionate about training others and improving processes for stakeholders in social services work. In 2015, Lisa led a training sponsored by the U.S. State Department in Bangkok, Thailand to educate Thai judges, prosecutors, and juvenile probation officers on best practices for juvenile diversion programs and human trafficking courts. In her role as Director of Juvenile Programs, she annually trained hundreds of community volunteers, police officers, and prosecutors on juvenile justice issues and restorative justice practices. Lisa has also served as a member of a small group of prosecutors from around the country who created a national Juvenile Prosecutor Training Curriculum and Best Practice Manual to be used across the United States. In 2021, Lisa was appointed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to be a member of the Juvenile Court Procedural Rules Committee and became Committee Chair in 2025.

Lisa is a graduate of The Ohio State University and Temple University Beasley School of Law. She lives in Center City with her husband, and they have three children.

Anne Taylor, (she/her)

Chair, Litigation Group

(215) 683-5038

anne.taylor@phila.gov

As Chair of the Litigation Group, Anne oversees litigation matters and supervises the following litigation units:

Appeals
Affirmative & Special Litigation
Civil Rights
Tort Litigation
Code & Public Nuisance Litigation
Labor & Employment

Anne rejoined the City of Philadelphia Law Department in January 2020, returning to serve as the Chief Deputy City Solicitor of the Civil Rights Unit. That team is responsible for representing the City and its employees in cases alleging violations of constitutional rights or intentional torts.

Anne began her legal career at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, and then held consecutive federal clerkships for the Honorable L. Felipe Restrepo and the Honorable Gene E.K. Pratter. She then joined the Law Department as an Assistant City Solicitor for the Civil Rights Unit. Next, she served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Civil Litigation Unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, and then as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey. Anne is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and Yale University, and a NITA-certified advocate.

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David Torres, (he/him/his)

Director of Administration

(215) 683-0368

David.Torres@phila.gov

David Torres is Director of Administration for the City of Philadelphia’s Law Department, and has held this title since 2020. In this role, he serves as principal administrative and fiscal officer for the department.

He oversees the following areas:

Fiscal
Human Resources
Information Technology
Contract Administration
Mailroom

David has been an employee of the City of Philadelphia since 2008, and has served in the Mayor’s Office, Inspector General’s Office, and Managing Director’s Office prior to joining the Law Department.

David is a graduate of Temple University, with a Bachelor’s degree in Adult and Organizational Development (2007).

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