Nancy K.D. Lemon
Nancy Lemon has extensive experience in domestic violence issues as a law school lecturer and practicing attorney. Since 1988, Nancy Lemon has been a lecturer in domestic violence law and clinical instructor at Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, California. She developed the first course in US. Published reader and the first casebook on this subject. She has also been a lecturer on domestic violence law at the Golden Gate School of Law in San Francisco.
Nancy is co-chair of the Legislative Committee of the California Alliance Against Domestic Violence, and has drafted and/or testified for many bills enacted in California to address domestic violence issues. She serves as a consultant to the California Center for Judicial Education and Research.
From 1989 through 1993, Nancy served as staff attorney and volunteer coordinator at the Family Violence Law Center in Berkeley. She recruited, trained and supervised volunteers and interns, interviewed battered women, drafted restraining orders, represented clients at hearings and worked with Spanish-speaking clients.
From 1983 until 1987, Nancy was the legal advocacy program director of Battered Women's Alternatives in Martinez, California. Nancy has also served as legal program coordinator for the Mid-Peninsula Support Network in Mountain View, California and as director of the domestic violence unit at the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County, in Oakland California. In these positions, she has trained and supervised attorneys, paralegals, volunteers and shelter workers, trained police and sheriff personnel and created liaison programs with the District Attorney's office.
Nancy is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley, California and received her Bachelors of Arts in Women's Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is the recipient of the Manuel P. Wiley Pro Bono Award (State Bar, 1993) and Women's Hall of Fame Award for Justice (Alameda Co., 1994.)