Mary Fenelon was born in 1960. Her documented education and professional life are based in Ireland, where she studied law at University College Dublin before being admitted to the bar in 1983.
University College Dublin is a constituent college of the National University of Ireland, and its Faculty of Law conferred the Bachelor of Civil Law, a degree in Irish law that forms the basis of legal training in the Irish system.
Fenelon's university education was at University College Dublin, where she obtained the Bachelor of Civil Law degree. The Bachelor of Civil Law was offered by the Faculty of Law of University College Dublin, then part of the National University of Ireland, and it provided a grounding in Irish law together with the broader study of law.
Her admission to the bar in Ireland in 1983 followed her university law studies and marked her entry into the country's legal profession.
Mary Fenelon works as a partner of McCann FitzGerald, a law firm headquartered in Dublin. Her professional career in Ireland followed her admission to the bar there in 1983.
McCann FitzGerald traces its origins to 1947, when Alexis FitzGerald was among the founding partners of the Dublin solicitors' firm McCann White & FitzGerald, which later became McCann FitzGerald. The firm took its present form after a 1965 merger and today has offices in Dublin, London, New York and Brussels.
As a partner, Fenelon holds a position in a firm owned by its partners, a structure that places partners in the senior ownership and management tier of an Irish law practice.
