Sarah Davis recipient of 2008 Client Community Service Award

April 11, 2008

Sarah Davis (right) and Willis Williams

(Raleigh, NC) - The client community of Legal Aid of North Carolina awarded the 2008 Client Community Service Award to Sara Davis of Apex, NC.

The presentation was made by Willis Williams, Chair of the Legal Aid of North Carolina Clients Council, during the 2008 North Carolina Legal Services Statewide Conference in Durham, NC.

Mrs. Davis has been involved in the Wake County Community for many years,” said Williams at the service award luncheon on April 2. “and has been responsible for teaching and training individuals in home health nursing in rural Wake County."

Davis worked with teenage girls in the healthy mom and healthy babies program.  She is a charter member of Western Wake Community Action Group organized to help the poor get water and sewer in their homes.  She also worked with Wake Opportunities as an Outreach worker bringing healthcare to the Apex community.

Davis has served as President of the Raleigh-Apex Chapter of the NAACP, has been a member of the Board of Directors for Legal Aid of  North Carolina and has had 43 years of uninterrupted service with the Wake County Board of Elections, serving as judge, precinct chair and has continued as a precinct worker.

Davis currently serves on the Client Council and on the Board of Directors as an ex-officio member.

The LANC Clients Council established the Client Community Service Award in 2004 to recognize a legal aid client or low-income community leader in North Carolina who has provided extraordinary and dedicated service to the equal justice community and to organizations that promote access to justice for low-income people. Selection criteria for the award include: service to the justice community; demonstrated leadership to advance low-income people; and significant volunteer efforts to empower low-income people and remove legal barriers to economic opportunity in North Carolina.

The Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC) Clients Council is a LANC advisory committee, whose mission is to educate and empower poor and low-income citizens regarding rights, responsibilities and available resources necessary for them to achieve economic, political and social justice. Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC) is a statewide, nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income people in order to ensure equal access to justice and to remove legal barriers to economic opportunity.

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RELATED ARTICLE(S):

* "C.R. Ward recipient of 2006 Client Community Service Award"
  (April 11, 2008)

* "Willis E. Williams recipient of 2004 Client Community Service
   Award,"
(Media Release, May 5, 2004)


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