Alumni

Powers began her career as a teacher and ended it as an accomplished attorney. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from St. John’s University and briefly taught English at a Long Island high school and a community college in Massachusetts. Her husband and family moved to the Buffalo area in October 1975, where she took the LSAT and then applied to UB for law school. Upon graduation, Powers worked at the Buffalo law firm Jaeckle Flesichmann & Mugel and was named a partner in December 1984. Her work was primarily in commercial real estate, representing developers and other clients in all aspects of commercial and industrial real property. She retired at the end of 2014 and has since enjoyed traveling, reading and community involvement.

Powers is the past president of the Erie County Bar Foundation, the Volunteer Lawyers Project, the Niagara Frontier Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners, the UB Alumni Association, UB Law Alumni Association and a past Chair of the board of Trustees of Trocaire College.

She is currently a member of the Gerard Place Advisory Board, a member of the UB Law School Dean’s Advisory Council and Secretary of the UB Foundation, where she also serves on the Executive and Properties committees.