Meghan O’Neill is currently serving as the APANJ Vice President and is a Senior Assistant Prosecutor in the Trial Section of the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. She graduated from Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature. She later attended Vermont Law School, where she graduated in 2008 with a Juris Doctorate and focused both her educational and practical training in environmental law.

After law school, Meghan worked as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Paul F. Chaiet, J.S.C. (ret.) in the Criminal Division of the Monmouth County Superior Court. She then earned a one-year position as a legal assistant in the Appellate Section of the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. After leaving Monmouth and after a very brief stint as a volunteer attorney in the Office of the Attorney General’s Environmental Enforcement Unit, in 2010 Meghan was sworn in as an Assistant Prosecutor in the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. She spent four years in the Appellate Section before moving to the Trial Section. She also works as the lead attorney in the Arson and Environmental Crimes Unit and represents Ocean County on the Attorney General’s Environmental Task Force.

Meghan is a Police Training Commission Certified Instructor and enjoys teaching at the Ocean County Police Academy and presenting on a variety of topics whenever she can.