About Lisa

Lisa has been a civil rights lawyer since 1995. After running her own firm for 16 years, she joined Disability Rights North Carolina, a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of people with disabilities.

At Disability Rights, she litigates cases to enforce the rights of people with disabilities to live and work free from discrimination. She has represented people facing employment discrimination, voting rights violations, disability discrimination by public agencies, denial of access to public accommodations, and constitutional rights violations.

Lisa has lived in Raleigh since 1990. She has a longtime partner, an adult son, and a 12-year-old, 75-pound “pandemic puppy” named Rosie. She is a slow runner but somehow completed the City of Oaks Marathon twice. For several years, she organized the Feminist 5k, the proceeds of which benefited the Women’s Center of Wake County. When not involved in any of the above, Lisa is out in the garden pulling weeds.

Selected Civic Engagement

North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys
    President, 2000 – 2001
    Board of Directors, 1998 – 2002
    Chair, Judicial Endorsements Committee, 2004

North Carolina Justice Center
    Board of Directors, 2012 – 2019
    Board Co-chair, 2015 – 2016

Suzanne Reynolds for NC Supreme Court, Campaign Manager, 2008

Committee to Keep Judge Linda Stephens, Campaign Manager, 2008

Robin Hudson for NC Supreme Court, Campaign Manager, 2006

North Carolina Advocates for Justice, 1995 – present
Civil Rights Section Executive Committee, 2016 – 2018
Continuing Legal Education Executive Committee, Co-chair, 2007 – 2009

North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Attorneys, Board of Directors, ~ 2000