Steering Committee Bios

Andrea | Diana | Johanna | Angie
Gloria | Nancy | Cassie

Nancy K.D. Lemon

Nancy K.D. Lemon helped create the first Women's Studies major at any UC campus, receiving a BA with honors in 1975 from UCSC. She graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law (UC Berkeley) in 1980, and has specialized in domestic violence legal issues ever since. She has taught Domestic Violence Law at Boalt since 1988, the reader for which was published in 1996 by Austin and Winfield and in 2001 by West Group. Domestic Violence Law is the first published curriculum on this topic and is used in law schools around the US. She also teaches a Domestic Violence Clinical class at Boalt. While working at various nonprofit agencies around the San Francisco Bay Area from 1981 through 1993, she represented hundreds of battered women obtaining restraining orders, and advocated for them with the civil and criminal justice systems. Ms. Lemon has worked on numerous pieces of legislation, having been active with the Policy & Research Committee of the Ca. Alliance Against Domestic Violence since 1984. She is the Associate Editor of Domestic Violence Report, a bimonthly national publication. She has published many books and articles in this field, has worked with other attorneys as a trial consultant, and testifies as an expert witness on domestic violence issues. She is also a consultant to Ca. Judges Education and Training (CJER), with whom she has developed curricula for new judges and for court employees. She has trained hundreds of judges, police officers, prosecutors, court employees, custody evaluators, mediators, and domestic violence advocates on domestic violence dynamics and laws.