Joanne Young has lived in DC for over 50 years, beginning with her time at Georgetown Law. She joined the DC Republican Party (DC GOP) shortly after graduating and has supported the party ever since. For the past three yeras, she has served as Vice Chair and now is running for National Committeewoman, one of DC’s three seats on the Republican National Committee.
Joanne has long been active in building the DC GOP including by drafting position papers on voter integrity challenges visited on us by the DC Board of Elections, attending their meetings, supporting our candidates and raising funds for the party. Joanne has attended RNC meetings both as a guest and to ensure the proxies of our Chairman and Committee members were counted when they could not attend. She is familiar with the role.
Nationally, Joanne has supported the party and candidates by working during elections in Republican “War Rooms,” evaluating and timely addressing legal issues and incidents of voter fraud, working as a poll watcher and in call centers, handing out brochures, and by serving as part of the DC Delegation to the Republican National Convention. She was selected by the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) as the 2020 Republican Lawyer of the Year, as well as a Star of the Bar by the Women’s Bar Association (2015) and the Attorney of the Year for the Boy Scouts National Capital Area Council (2013).
Joanne especially enjoyed serving on several Party Platform Committees, including as a Co-Chair, which involved hearing testimony of DC residents on the positions we take with the RNC. She is always interested in hearing from DC Republicans and can be reached at [email protected].
Joanne practices law in the District of Columbia. She clerked on the Superior Court for the Honorable Fred B. Ugast and, after a brief stint in the federal government, practiced in the private sector. For decades, she worked in “Big Law” firms before establishing her own firm with her business partner in 2006. Accordingly, she is an entrepreneur who knows what it means to make a payroll!