Ms. Scharf is the director of the University at Buffalo School of Law’s Trial Advocacy Program and has years of experience teaching law school classes. In addition, she has worked as a litigator in prestigious law firms in Western New York, and most recently served as in-house counsel at Erie County Medical Center and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

A past president of the Women’s Bar Association of Western New York, Ms. Scharf is the chair of the Bar Association of Erie County’s Health Care Law Committee, a member of the Medical Society of Erie County’s Health Law Committee, a co-founder of Women to Women WNY, and has served as campaign manager for New York Assemblymember Monica Wallace since her first election in 2016.

When she’s free, she enjoys spending time with her three-year-old niece, working out with the “breakfast club” at the gym at 5 a.m., drinking good red wine (California Cabs and Super Tuscans), and traveling to and surfing in Hawaii. She makes an effort to practice Aloha every day.