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LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION APPOINTS NEW VICE PRESIDENT Washington—LSC President John McKay today announced he will designate Randi Youells to LSC’s Board of Directors for the position of Vice President for Programs. The LSC Board of Directors will act on this nomination Jan. 29 at LSC’s Annual Meeting in Austin, Tex. In this position, Youells would be responsible for LSC’s Offices of Program Performance Compliance and Enforcement, and Information Management. Through these departments, she will oversee the competitive grants process and the delivery of legal services, the compliance of LSC-funded programs with congressionally-mandated regulations, and the collection and dissemination of information about LSC grantees, among other duties. Youells has extensive experience with legal services and LSC. For the past several years, she served as a consultant to LSC and to several local legal services offices, where she has evaluated programs as part of LSC’s competitive grants process and assisted grantees with developing refunding applications and assessing internal strengths and weaknesses. During that time, she also served as a key advisor on LSC’s state planning initiative, helping to define expectations for this initiative that promotes comprehensive statewide civil equal justice systems. Among her prior experience working for local legal services offices, Youells has served as Interim Executive Director for Camden Regional Legal Services in New Jersey, and in the positions of Special Projects Coordinator, Deputy Director for Special Projects, and Executive Director for Legal Services Corporation of Iowa. She has also served as Acting Assistant Executive Director of YWCA of Greater Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Youells received her B.A. from Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1973. In 1975, she was awarded her Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa, and is currently admitted to practice law in Iowa and Pennsylvania. Additionally, Youells earned a Master’s of Community Psychology in 1995 from Pennsylvania State University in Harrisburg. She is the author of several articles, and also edited Talking Tough: A Poor Person’s Guide to Self-Advocacy for Legal Services Corporation of Iowa. Youells and her husband, Dr. Frank Gerry, currently Assistant Vice-Chancellor for the State System of Higher Education in Pennsylvania, plan to relocate to Washington. She will assume her duties at LSC Feb. 14, upon approval of her nomination. LSC is a private, non-profit corporation established by Congress in 1974 to seek to ensure equal access to justice for all low-income persons.
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