Staff
  Linda Peyton, Esq., Executive Director
Esther Miller, Managing Attorney
Brandon Kuykendall, Esq., Staff Attorney
Eileen F. Carroll, Esq., Staff Attorney & Independence Foundation Public Interest Law Fellow
Rodney N. Warner, Staff Attorney
Scott Simpkins, Legal Assistant
Board of Directors

Amy E. Slater, Esq., President
Louise Pangborn, Vice President & Secretary
Loretta McLaughlin, Treasurer
Tom Burke
Christine Ciarrocchi, Esq.
MaryEllen Daley
Beth Freeman, Esq.
Greg Heller, Esq.
Daniel Hessel, Esq.
Kristen Hynd Jones, Esq.
William Hickey, Ph.D.
 Jeffrey Lichtman, Esq.
Mary O’Donnell-Green
Spencer Rand, Esq.
Heather Ritch, Esq.
Christopher Roe, Esq.
Sandra Schmehl
Mary Stokes, Esq.
Advisory Board

Thomas S. Brown, Esq., President
Paul J. Kennedy, Esq.
Gerald S. Segal, Esq.
William Staas, Jr., MD
Andrew F. Susko, Esq.

Corporate Counsel

Ronald Fisher, Esq. and
Mary Stokes, Esq. of Blank Rome LLP


Linda Peyton, Esq., Executive Director
Prior to becoming Executive Director, Linda was a staff attorney and Director of the Anti Violence Initiative. Linda represented victims of domestic violence obtain Protection From Abuse Orders, represented them in any other legal matter to help them break the cycle of domestic violence. She joined the Legal Clinic in March 2003 after 20 years with the Defender Association of Philadelphia as a trial and appellate attorney. She is a graduate of Arizona State University and Antioch Law School in Washington, DC (J.D. 1981). She was the director of the Defender Association’s criminal law clinic at the University of Pennsylvania, and is an adjunct professor at Temple University and Arcadia University.
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Esther Miller, Managing Attorney
Esther Miller is Managing Attorney at LCD. Prior to receiving her law degree she was a practicing social worker for more than 15 years. Esther was a staff attorney at LCD from 1997-2004. She was in-house counsel for Philadelphia Corporation for Aging and then did policy work for Public Citizens for Children and Youth. Esther returned to LCD in the fall of 2008.
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Brandon Kuykendall, Esq., Staff Attorney
Brandon is a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College (B.S. 2000) and the University of Miami School of Law (J.D. 2005). At the University of Miami, he was awarded the Miami Scholars Scholarship, given to exceptional students who have demonstrated an interest and commitment to public interest law. In the summer of 2003 he served in a fellowship with the University of Miami School of Law Children and Youth Law Clinic, and clerked in the summer of 2004 at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty in Washington D.C. Before coming to the Legal Clinic, he practiced civil rights, environmental and land use law at a small Philadelphia firm.
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Eileen F. Carroll, Esq., Staff Attorney & Independence Foundation Public Interest Law Fellow
Eileen is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (B.A. cum laude 2004) and Villanova University School of Law (J.D. 2007). During law school she served as a Villanova Public Interest Fellow at Community Legal Services and as a law clerk at LCD and Regional Housing Legal Services. She represents parents of children with disabilities.
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Rodney N. Warner, Staff Attorney
Rodney is a graduate of Syracuse University (B.S. 1987) and Western New England College School of Law (J.D. 1994). He worked ten years with the State of Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities investigating and mediating employment discrimination complaints. Rodney – a survivor of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma – counsels and represents cancer survivors under a project partially funded by the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
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Scott Simpkins, Legal Assistant
Scott is a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic University (B.S. Mech. Eng. 1994). His responsibilities include administrative and fundraising support and paralegal work.
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