Tamara A. Steckler

Tamara A. Steckler is the Attorney-in-Charge of the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society (JRD). Prior to becoming an attorney, Tamara was a special education teacher for two years. Post law school, Tamara worked as a staff attorney for JRD in the Bronx trial office, then became the Legal Director for Talbot Perkins Foster Care Agency and then continued her work with JRD in the Brooklyn trial office. In 1994, Tamara left Legal Aid to become the Director of the Family Law Unit for a growing not for profit law firm, New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG). While at NYLAG, Tamara started and supervised a full-service family law program in which staff represented thousands of impoverished domestic violence victims and others in Family and Supreme courts. After several years, Tamara also became the Assistant Executive Director of NYLAG and served as the Development Director for two years. Tamara returned to Legal Aid’s Juvenile Rights Division in 2005 as the Attorney-in-Charge. She currently sits on numerous state and city task forces and advisory committees related to juvenile justice and child welfare issues, is on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Counsel for Children and is a member of Judge Judith Kaye’s Permanent Judicial Commission on Children, as well as the statewide Task Force on the Future of Probation.

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