Rebecca Henry
Senior Staff Attorney Rebecca Henry is the Senior Staff Attorney at the Commission on Domestic Violence of the American Bar Association, where she is responsible for developing and implementing technical assistance programs for civil attorneys with a domestic violence practice. Rebecca has been advocating for victims since 1998, first as a legal services attorney representing DV survivors and their children in complex family matters, and most recently as Staff Attorney and Project Director of the OVW-funded Elder Justice Project. As Project Director she developed and presented trainings to hundreds of police officers, prosecutors and court staff in Maine about best practices for criminal justice interventions for elder abuse, and collaborated with the National White Collar Crime Center to develop a three-day national curriculum on investigating financial crimes against seniors perpetrated as a part of the cycle of abuse. Rebecca has been a frequent presenter on issues of elder abuse intervention and coordinated community response for civil attorneys and social service providers in both the DV and elder services communities. She served as a consultant for the Penobscot Indian Nation as they drafted their tribal elder abuse statute, and has served on several local and state-wide elder abuse/domestic violence coalitions and boards. In 2006, Rebecca drafted Abuse Against the Elderly and Vulnerable Adults: Potential Legal Remedies, a 94-page reference guide for attorneys and advocates in Maine. Rebecca is a graduate of NYU Law School and has an MA in feminist philosophy from the University of MN. She is a member of the New York and Maine bars, and clerked on the Sixth Circuit Court of Federal Appeals in Nashville, TN. |