Sarah Davis recipient of 2008
Client Community Service Award
April 11, 2008
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Sarah Davis (right)
and Willis Williams
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(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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* "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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