LSC Announces Participants for Spring Conference
LSC is pleased to announce the list of participants for the upcoming LSC-sponsored conference, "Creating Client-Centered State Communities of Justice." The conference will be held at the Hotel Hershey in Hershey, Pennsylvania from April 25-28, 2001. The purpose of the conference is to bring together active client/community advocates and legal services staff who embrace the concept of "client-centered legal services" and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, thoughts, plans and strategies about how the legal services community can center its work in terms of what empowers, strengthens and enhances the lives of our clients.
| Participant's Name | Title | Organization | City | State |
| Hafeezah Ahmad | Board President | Legal Action of Wisconsin | Milwaukee | WI |
| Jonathan Asher | Executive Director | Colorado Legal Services | Denver | CO |
| Judith A. Ball | Administrative Director | Family Crisis Intervention Center | Parkersburg | WV |
| Elizabeth Barger | Rural Caucus Chair | TN Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence | Summertown | TN |
| Timothy Bertschy | Chair | Illinois Equal Justice Commission | Peoria | IL |
| Eddie Mae Binion | Director | Southside Welfare Rights Organization | St. Louis | MO |
| Michael Blau | Managing Attorney | Legal Aid of Central Michigan | Lansing | MI |
| Colleen Cotter | Interim Director | Indiana Justice Center | Bloomington | IN |
| Gregory L. Countess | Chief Attorney | Legal Aid Bureau, Inc. | Baltimore | MD |
| Marjorie Jackson Crowder | Client Board Member | Community Legal Services | Philadelphia | PA |
| Terence A. Dicks | GCC Board Member | Georgia Clients Council | Augusta | GA |
| B. D. Douglas | Board Member | Acadiana Legal Service Corp. | Lafayette | LA |
| Catina Drywater | NAPIL Fellow and Pro se Coordinator | Legal Services of Eastern Oklahoma | Tulsa | OK |
| Mary Fitzgerald | Managing Attorney | Legal Services of Eastern Oklahoma | Tulsa | OK |
| David Fraley | President | Amigos de Los Nino Headstart Foundation of Maricopa County | Glendale | AZ |
| Tom Garrett | Executive Director | Legal Services Law Line of Vermont | Burlington | VT |
| John Gray | Project Director | Brooklyn Legal Services | Brooklyn | NY |
| Cecile Greenway | President | Columbia Legal Services | Port Angeles | WA |
| George R. Hausen | Deputy Director | Legal Services of North Carolina | Raleigh | NC |
| Anna-Marie Johnson | Director of Administration | DNA-People's Legal Services | Window Rock | AZ |
| Lucy Johnson | Client Board Member | Legal Services of Central New York | Syracuse | NY |
| Alcira Marin Kane | Paralegal | Merrimack Valley Legal Services | Lawrence | MA |
| William King | County Commissioner | Jonah, Inc. | Brownsville | TN |
| Jean A. Lastine | Executive Director | Central Minnesota Legal Services | Minneapolis | MN |
| Elizabeth P. Lauer | Paralegal | Mid-Missouri Legal Services | Columbia | MO |
| Linda L. Lund | Director | Alabama State Bar Volunteer Lawyers Program | Montgomery | AL |
| Marjorie Anne McDiarmid | Professor | West Virginia University | Morgantown | WV |
| Veda L. McKnight | State Coordinator | Georgia Clients Council | Atlanta | GA |
| Verlene Mullen | Assistant Director | Victims Assistance Center | Kankakee | IL |
| Tanya Neiman | Director | Volunteer Legal Services Program of the Bar Association of San Francisco | San Francisco | CA |
| Alice K. Nelson | Executive Director | Southern Legal Counsel | Gainesville | FL |
| Amelia Nieto | Director | Centro Shalom | Long Beach | CA |
| Ben Obregon | Board Member | Legal Action of Wisconsin | Madison | WI |
| Carolyn Olive | Board Member | Indiana Legal Services | Indianapolis | IN |
| Denise Owens | Chancellor | Fifth Judicial Chancery District | Jackson | MS |
| Helen Neal Pore | Client Advocate | BALS | Tampa | FL |
| Linda K. Rexer | Director | Michigan State Bar Foundation | Lansing | MI |
| Waine Riches | Managing Attorney | Utah Legal Services | Salt Lake City | UT |
| Johnny Ritchie | Board Member | Kingsport Initiative for Training & Employment | Kingsport | TN |
| Toby Rothschild | General Counsel | Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles | Long Beach | CA |
| Peggy Santos | Client Board Member | Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation | Boston | MA |
| Theresa K. Shively | Assistant Director | Kansas Legal Services | Topeka | KS |
| Karen Skorski | Client Board Member | North Penn Legal Services | Bloomsburg | PA |
| Tina Smith | Board Member | Colorado Legal Services | Denver | CO |
| Rosita M. Stanley | Past State Chair | Georgia Clients Council | Macon | GA |
| Roberta Stick | Deputy Executive Director | Nebraska Legal Services | Lincoln | NE |
| Vernessa Taylor | Secretary | LSNC Client Council | Raleigh | NC |
| David Thornburgh | Director of Litigation | Legal Aid Services of Oregon | Portland | OR |
| Paul Ward | Neighborhood Legal Services | Pittsburgh | PA | |
| Mrs. Charles Wilson | Treasurer | East Texas Legal Services Board of Directors | Marshall | TX |
| Marquita Wise-Jones | Board Member | Legal Aid Bureau, Inc. | Baltimore | MD |