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JENNIFER R. SLETVOLD, ESQ. 701 Washington Street Easton, PA 18042 Phone (610) 258-5329 Fax (610) 258-0155

Press Release Contact: Jennifer R. Sletvold, Esq.

Phone: (610)258-5329

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 30,2013

ATTORNEY ANNOUNCES JUDICIAL CANDIDACY

BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP, PA JANUARY 30, 2013: Attorney Jennifer R.

Sletvold, a Bethlehem Township resident and lawyer with Lauer &

Sletvold law firm in Easton, announces her candidacy for Judge

of the Northampton County Court of Common Pleas in the upcoming

election. In announcing her candidacy, Sletvold indicated that

she decided to run “because I am dedicated to the ideal of a

fair and efficient bench. As a parent, teacher and lawyer in

Northampton County, I believe that I have a unique understanding

of the challenges that our community and the courts will face

over the next ten years and beyond.”

Sletvold graduated summa cum laude from West Chester University

with a degree in Criminal Justice in 1994, and cum laude from

the Dickinson School of Law in 1997. She served for two years

as a law clerk to now Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille of the

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. She has since been in private

practice representing businesses, employers and individuals with

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a wide variety of legal matters in state and federal court.

Sletvold is also an adjunct professor at Northampton Community

College, teaching Contracts Law, Business Law I and II and Law

for Emergency Services.

Sletvold lives in Bethlehem Township with her husband, United

States Army veteran and attorney Robert E. Sletvold and their

two young sons. Attorney Sletvold stated that she “looks

forward to a campaign in which she meets as many voters of

Northampton County in person as possible in order to better know

their concerns with the judicial system and to make the system

more responsive to the needs of every resident of Northampton

County.”

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