Penny Unkraut Hendy

Penny Unkraut Hendy is a Fort Mitchell personal injury lawyer at Hendy Johnson Vaughn representing injured people in Kentucky and Ohio. She focuses on birth trauma, medical malpractice, car accidents, truck wrecks, and product liability claims. Her work includes helping families and accident victims understand legal options, prepare claims, and pursue accountability after serious harm caused by negligence, unsafe medical care, dangerous products, or preventable crashes that disrupt health, work, finances, and family life.

Penny earned her legal education at Salmon P. Chase College of Law. She is licensed to practice in Kentucky and Ohio, along with many federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court. Her training and admissions support a practice involving complex injury litigation, detailed medical evidence, expert review, court rules, and claims that require careful preparation before negotiations, trial, or final resolution for injured clients and grieving families alike statewide.

Penny is active in local, state, and national trial attorney organizations. Her memberships include the Northern Kentucky Bar Association, Kentucky Bar Association, Cincinnati Bar Association, Kentucky Justice Association, Ohio Association for Justice, Southwest Ohio Trial Lawyers Association, and American Association for Justice. She has served in leadership roles, including past president positions and committee work connected to trial advocacy, outreach, and legal professionalism for lawyers, students, and community members statewide.

Penny Unkraut Hendy has tried complex cases and resolved serious claims involving birth injuries, automobile collisions, trucking crashes, nursing home negligence, traumatic brain injuries, and wrongful death. Her profile notes verdicts and settlements in several high-value injury matters. Through focused representation, Penny helps clients seek recovery after medical errors, unsafe care, severe crashes, and other events that change lives for families facing lasting grief, bills, pain, uncertainty, stress, and hardship.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Hendy Johnson Vaughn
• Member, The Kentucky Bar Association
• Member, Cincinnati Bar Association
• Member, Ohio Association for Justice
• Member, Southwest Ohio Trial Lawyers Association
• Past President, The Kentucky Justice Association
• Member, American Association for Justice

Licensed State

• Kentucky
• Ohio

Education

• Salmon P. Chase College of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Northern Kentucky University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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