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Ms. McComsey was born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, in December of 1975.  She spent most of her childhood in Toms River, New Jersey, where she graduated from High School North in 1994. 

She attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science (PCPS), now known as the University of the Sciences, and spent her summers lifeguarding at the beach in Lavallette, New Jersey.  She completed undergraduate research in molecular biology under the direction of her genetics professor, while waiting tables at Chili's and volunteering at Mercy Hospital.  Ms. McComsey graduated from PCPS with a B.S. in Biology in 1998.

Following graduation from PCPS, Ms. McComsey worked in the biotechnology industry.  She performed DNA sequencing in the Gene Discovery Department of Human Genome Sciences in Rockville, Maryland.  Subsequent to that, she worked at Neose Technologies in Horsham, Pennsylvania, where her research involved gene cloning, protein expression, enzymatic activity assay development, protein purification, enzymatic carbohydrate synthesis and carbohydrate purification. 

In 2002, Ms. McComsey decided to pursue a legal career and began attending Seton Hall University School of Law.  She was a member of the Intellectual Property Law Association, serving on the executive board each year and as President in her last year of law school.  Attorney McComsey completed a concentration in intellectual property law and was nominated by the faculty for the 2005 Jan Jancin award for excellence in intellectual property.

Upon graduation from Seton Hall in May of 2005, she passed both the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bar examinations and completed a two-year clerkship for the Honorable Stephen G. Baratta in the Northampton Court of Common Pleas in Easton, Pennsylvania.  Attorney McComsey is admitted to appear before the federal courts in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

In July of 2007, she joined Seidel Cohen Hof & Reid, LLC, as an associate attorney, where she specializes in litigation.

Ms. McComsey is very active in the Northampton County Bar Association and the community.  She has been a member of the Law Day Committee since 2005 and has volunteered each year at this annual event designed to educate local middle school children about our court system and the law.  She has also volunteered to speak at local schools about dangers on the Internet as part of the Operation Safe Surf Program, a program sponsored by the Attorney General  of Pennsylvania and local bar associations. She is currently serving as Chair to the Young Lawyers Division. 

Ms. McComsey has also participated in many local fundraising events in the last couple of years, including the Walk for a Healthy Community, the 5K for the prevention of domestic violence, the Muscular Dystrophy Association's Networking Fundraiser, as well as the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training.

Ms. McComsey is a member of the St. Isadore Roman Catholic Church in Quakertown, Pennsylvania.  She is married to David J. McComsey.  They live in Milford Township, Pennsylvania, and are the proud new parents of beautiful Kiera McComsey.