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Senior Attorney
Child Welfare/Foster Care, Education of Foster Youth
Primary office: Oakland, CA
Email: lwelch(at)youthlaw.org
Phone: (510) 835-8098
Fax: (510) 835-8099
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Leecia Welch is a senior attorney at NCYL, specializing in child welfare issues. She is currently lead counsel on David C. v. Huntsman, a class action lawsuit in Utah focused on reforming its foster care system. She is also on NCYL’s litigation team in Clark K. v. Willden, a class action to reform the foster care system in Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada. In addition, Leecia oversees several projects to improve the educational opportunities of youth in Oakland’s foster care system, including the training of law students at UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law to become educational surrogates for youth in foster care. She also teaches a class at Boalt in child welfare reform through impact litigation. Leecia was awarded the 2007 Child Advocacy Award by the ABA Young Lawyers Division. Prior to joining NCYL in 2004, Leecia was an associate in the litigation department at San Francisco’s Morrison & Foerster LLP, and spent three years focusing her time nearly exclusively on Williams v. State of California, a class action aimed at improving California’s public school system. Leecia earned her J.D. Magna Cum Laude from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1996. She was an editor of the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, and the Children’s Legal Rights Journal. She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University with distinction and Phi Beta Kappa.
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