Michelle Cooney
2026 ALI Partner

Michelle Cooney brings to ALI expertise in finance, strategic planning, and business leadership. She spent over a decade at Johnson & Johnson, where she held key financial leadership roles, including operations and sales & marketing controller at J&J*Merck and director of finance at McNeil Specialty Pharmaceuticals. Michelle played a pivotal role in financial strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and investment planning, earning J&J’s prestigious Signature of Leadership Award for her work in business integration.

Active in the community, Michelle has served on both the finance and civic improvement and grants committees at The Garden Club of America, a national organization comprised of 200-member garden clubs and 18,000 volunteers across the U.S. working for a beautiful, healthy planet. She has also held leadership roles in the Huntingdon Valley Garden Club and the SCH Academy Parents Association, where supported the implementation of a historic school merger. 

Michelle joins her husband, Bob Cooney, as an ALI Partner.