The Board of Directors of Juniata Valley Financial Corp. appointed Joseph B. Scarnati III as a director of the Company on June 21, 2022. Mr. Scarnati was appointed to the class of directors whose term expires at the 2023 annual meeting of shareholders and is expected to serve on the Trust and Loan Committees of the Board of Directors.

Mr. Scarnati was born and raised in Brockway Pennsylvania and attended the Penn State Dubois campus where he received a business degree. After 20 years in the private sector Mr. Scarnati was elected to represent Pennsylvania's 25th Senatorial District in 2000 and served as Senate President Pro-Tempore for 15 years. Mr. Scarnati also served as Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor from 2008 to 2011.

Following his retirement from public service in 2020 Mr. Scarnati joined Allegheny Strategy Partners, a lobbying and consulting firm and he and his wife have owned The Dan Smith Candy Company since 2015.