Marsha Levick
Deputy Director and Chief Counsel, Juvenile Law Center
Marsha Levick is deputy director and chief counsel of Juvenile Law Center, which she co-founded in 1975, and an adjunct professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law. She has authored many articles on children and the law and submitted many briefs before state and federal courts and the US Supreme Court. Levick’s board service includes Southern Poverty Law Center, Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights, and Dean’s Council of Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs. She has been honored by the American Bar Association, Philadelphia Bar Association, and the American Association for Justice and received the Philadelphia Inquirer Citizen of the Year Award and the Arlen Specter Award.
Previously
Our juvenile justice system is too often overly punitive, inefficient, and outdated—especially given new findings about the immaturity of teen and young adult brains and the r...