Joni M. Thome has thirty two years of experience and is widely known for her trial and appellate work on behalf of employees who have been wrongfully terminated from their jobs due to discrimination, harassment and/or retaliation. A founding partner of Wanta Thome PLC she has obtained millions of dollars for her clients in awards and settlements including many multiple party, collective action, and class action employment lawsuits.Joni is a certified Employment Law Specialist and has been named a Super Lawyer by her peers regularly since 2003. She’s been recognized as one of Minnesota’s Top 50 Women Lawyers every year since 2012, has repeatedly been named one of Minnesota's Top 100 Lawyers and was named to the Best Lawyers in America list since 2018. Joni was also the recipient of the 2012 Karla Wahl Dedicated Advocacy Award by the Minnesota Chapter of the National Employment Lawyer Association. The award honors one Minnesota attorney each year for his or her “ceaseless and courageous efforts to better the rights of Minnesota employees.”