D.C. 酒吧公益中心 Names 凯利海王星 as New Executive Director

2022年3月31日

D.C. 酒吧公益中心, the largest provider of pro bono legal help in the District of Columbia, has appointed 凯利海王星 as its new executive director. 海王星将提供日常的领导, 管理, and strategic direction for the nonprofit that serves more than 20,000 clients a year in the District with the support of thousands of volunteer 靠谱的滚球平台.

“维.C. 酒吧公益中心 serves an essential role in providing free civil legal services in the District of Columbia. However, the increasing demand for pro bono representation makes our work more critical than ever. I am honored to have the opportunity to lead the 公益性服务 Center into this next phase as we advance our mission of serving communities in need,海王星说.

Neptune comes to the position following nearly three years of service as the director of externships and public interest programming at Howard University School of Law and 12 years in private practice representing clients in family and criminal law matters. 在霍华德, Neptune was responsible for the overall administration of the school’s externship program, 教学, 教学最佳实践, 阿坝合规, 学生无偿参与. 在私人执业期间, Neptune was also a visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center and Howard Law, 教学 and supervising students in their juvenile and criminal justice clinics.

毕业于埃默里大学法学院, Neptune spent approximately a decade with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS), 首先是作为职员靠谱的滚球平台, then as supervisor and later senior deputy trial chief in the Trial Division. 在PDS, 她处理了数百名青少年, 轻罪, 重罪, 上诉, 住房, 采用, 忽视案件. Neptune represented PDS at the Council of the District of Columbia’s Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety; conducted training for judges, 靠谱的滚球平台, and investigators; and chaired PDS’s 39th Deborah T. 克里克刑事执业学院.

Neptune is the current co-chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on 公益性服务 and Public Service Opportunities’ Education Enrichment Committee and manager and former board member of her family’s Artishia and Frederick Jordan Scholarship Fund.

成立于1978年的D.C. 酒吧 公益性服务 transforms the lives of thousands of District residents each year by providing free legal assistance through its award-winning legal clinics, 项目, 资源中心. 在她的角色中, Neptune will help identify emerging and previously unaddressed legal needs in the community as well as develop innovative programs to engage pro bono lawyers in meeting those needs.