Staten Island Women's Bar Association Directors

Rosa Tragni, Esq.

SIWBA Director

Rosa Tragni has been practicing law since 1991. She graduated from New York Law School and earned her Bachelors’s Degree in Sociology. She has been a member of the Assigned Counsel Plan and has worked as an attorney for the Law Guardian Program, Appellate Division, 2nd Department since 1996. She also handles assignments for Adults and Children in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Matrimonial Part, and the Integrated Domestic Violence Court in Richmond County.

She worked as an Associate for Kreindler & Relkin P.C. and handled commercial litigation from 1991 to 1996.

From 2006 to 2010, she was a Council member of Marlboro Township. She was appointed liaison to the Board of Education and Youth Exchange Advisory Committee. Rosa Tragni is a member of the Staten Island Women’s Bar Association.

From 2018 to 2019, Rosa Tragni was elected Treasurer of the Staten Island Women’s Bar Association. Rosa Tragni serves as a Director of the Staten Island Women’s Bar Association.

Rosa Pannitto

SIWBA Director

Rosa Pannitto is a native Staten Islander who left private practice after 25 years to become a Principal Law Clerk in the Court System. She worked from April 2019 until December 31, 2021, for the Honorable Barbara I. Panepinto. Rosa then went to work for the Law Department in Richmond County as a Principal Law Clerk until she began working in May 2022 as a Principal Law Clerk for the Honorable Wayne M. Ozzi in Richmond County. In September 2022, she became a Support Magistrate in Richmond County Family Court, where she currently sits. She formally maintained a private practice that primarily Consisted of Matrimonial and Family Law matters.

Besides SIWBA, Rosa is a member of the Richmond County Bar Association, a board member of the Columbian Lawyers Association of Brooklyn, the Catholic Lawyers Association of Brooklyn, and a program committee chair and past president of the Bay Ridge Lawyers Association.

In the community, she is a member of the Board of Directors and the Parliamentarian for the National Federation of Italian American Societies and a member of the St. Benedicta Society of Staten Island.

Rosa served as SIWBA President for the 2019-2020 term.

Danielle Menendez, Esq.

Immediate Past President

Danielle N. Menendez, Esq. is the Principal Law Clerk to the Honorable Pamela L. Fisher, J.S.C., Kings County Supreme Court-Civil Term. Danielle previously worked as an Agency Attorney at NYC Administration for Children’s Services, Family Court Legal Services. At ACS, Danielle represented the agency in child abuse and neglect cases. 

In 2018, Danielle joined the SIWBA Board as Corresponding Secretary; in 2019, she served as 2nd Vice President. Danielle obtained a J.D. from New York Law School in 2015. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology from West Virginia University in 2011. Danielle is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.