Don Saunders

Don Saunders has dedicated the past 32 years to the delivery of quality legal services to poor people, nationally as well as on the local and regional levels. Since February 1995 he has served as Director of the Civil Legal Services Division at NLADA. He previously served as Legislative Counsel for NLADA and the Project Advisory Group from May 1990 through January 1995. Before coming to Washington, DC, he served as the Executive Director of the North Carolina Legal Services Resource Center, a state support backup center, in Raleigh, NC from January 1983 to May 1990. In that capacity, he actively engaged in legislative advocacy and appellate work covering a broad range of issues in housing, employment, disability and civil rights law. From 1976 to 1982, he was a staff attorney in the legal services program in Wilmington and the executive director of the program in Boone, NC. Don received his J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1975 and his A.B. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina in 1972.