Clinical Professor Lucy Johnston-Walsh, 2nd from left, received the 2019 Achieving Women Award from Penn State to recognize her brilliant leadership and accomplishments within the area. Pictured with Johnston-Walsh are, from left, Medha Makhlouf, assistant professor of law and director of Dickinson Law’s Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic; daughter and Penn State student Reilly Johnston-Walsh; Trisha Prosser, administrative aid coordinator, in-house prison clinics; and Jada Ector, class of 2019, licensed felony intern, Dickinson Law’s Children’s Advocacy Clinic. Image: Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Clinical Professor of Law Lucy Johnston-Walsh obtained the 2019 Achieving Women Award from Penn State on Friday, Apr. 26, for the duration 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 acknowledges Penn State women who’ve proven brilliant leadership and accomplishment in their fields and have long gone beyond the necessities in their employment obligations and responsibilities in support of the University’s diversity efforts, advertising of equal opportunity, or contribution to human causes and public service activities.
“I am so humbled and honored to get hold of this award,” stated Johnston-Walsh. “I love the paintings that I do, and it feels splendid to be identified using the University for my efforts.” As director of the Children’s Advocacy Clinic at Dickinson Law, Johnston-Walsh supervises law students as they represent child clients in court complaints involving child maltreatment instances. She is also the director of the Center on Children and the Law at Penn State.
Johnston-Walsh is likewise actively involved within the Carlisle community, having served on the Cumberland County Children and Youth Services Advisory Board, Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas Roundtable for Children nearby operating organization for kids aging out of foster care. “These committees all work to enhance offerings presented to kids in our region,” said Johnston-Walsh.
She has additionally served on the Clean Air Board of Central Pennsylvania and the neighborhood community fitness foundation board. Before directing the Children’s Advocacy Clinic, Johnston-Walsh labored as a team of workers attorney at MidPenn Legal Services and as a coverage director for a statewide child advocacy organization. Before earning her Juris Doctor at Dickinson Law, she was a social worker inside the Virginia public college machine.
