Lillian M. Moy
Vice-President, 3rd District
Lillian M. Moy of Albany (executive director, Legal Aid Society of
Northeastern New York, Inc.) has been elected to serve as Vice-President
for the Third District of the Executive Committee of the New York State
Bar Association (NYSBA).
Moy received her undergraduate degree from Hunter College of the City
University of New York and earned her law degree from Boston University
School of Law.
Moy is the executive director of the Legal Aid Society of
Northeastern New York, Inc. From 1989-1995 she was the managing
attorney/advocacy coordinator for the Legal Assistance Corporation of
Central Massachusetts. Moy previously was a staff attorney with the
Georgia Legal Services Program from 1981-1989.
Within the State Bar, Moy is chair of the Committee on Minorities in
the Profession and a past chair of the Committee on Legal Aid. She is a
member of the Membership Committee and the President’s Committee
on Access to Justice and a past member of the House of Delegates. She
received the State Bar’s Denison Ray Program Director Award in
2008.
A nationally recognized leader and trainer in the civil legal aid
community, Moy is an adjunct Professor at the Albany Law School. Moy
also serves on the New York State Judicial Screening Committee for the
Third Department. She was a member of the Task Force for the ABA’s
Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defense revising the ABA
Standards for Providers of Civil Legal Aid to the Poor.
She is the immediate past chair of the Civil Policy Group of the
National Legal Aid and Defender Association and a former board
member. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Albany
Medical Center and the Corporation for AIDS Research, Education and
Services, Inc. (CARES).
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