Clinical Professor of Law Lucy Johnston-Walsh received the 2019 Achieving Women Award from Penn State on Friday, Apr. 26, at some point of a luncheon in the President’s Hall at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center, on the University Park campus.
The Achieving Women Award recognizes Penn State women who’ve shown brilliant leadership and accomplishment in their fields and feature gone beyond the requirements of their employment obligations and duties to assist the University’s diversity efforts, promoting equal opportunity and contribution to human causes and public service sports.
“I am so humbled and really honored to acquire this award,” said Johnston-Walsh. “I love the work that I do, and it feels wonderful to be recognized way of the University for my efforts.”
As director of the Children’s Advocacy Clinic at Dickinson Law, Johnston-Walsh supervises regulation students as they represent infant clients in court proceedings regarding child abuse instances. She is also the director of the Center on Children and the Law at Penn State.
Johnston-Walsh is also actively involved in the Carlisle network, having served on the Cumberland County Children and Youth Services Advisory Board, Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas Roundtable for Children, and a nearby running group for teenagers aging out of foster care.
“These committees all work to enhance services provided to kids in our place,” stated Johnston-Walsh.
She has additionally served on the Clean Air Board of Central Pennsylvania and a local network health basis board.
Before directing the Children’s Advocacy Clinic, Johnston-Walsh worked as a team of workers legal professional at MidPenn Legal Services and as a policy director for a statewide toddler advocacy agency. Before earning her Juris health practitioner at Dickinson Law, she became a social worker in the Virginia public school system.
