Ballard Spahr Attorney Joins Wave of Women Headed to Congress (1)

An attorney in Ballard Spahr’s Philadelphia office will be headed to Washington after winning big in Tuesday night’s U.S. House of Representatives races.

Mary Gay Scanlon, a Democrat, bested Republican Pearl Kim in the polls to represent Pennsylvania’s 5th Congressional District. The newly created district, which includes Philadelphia’s western suburbs, was pieced together from other districts after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that the original map constituted an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.

Scanlon also won a special election in the 7th District to complete the term of Patrick Meehan, a Republican representative who stepped down in April after revelations he ...