Marsha Levick


Marsha Levick is a lawyer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She is a co-founder and Chief Legal Officer of the Juvenile Law Center and recognized as a leading expert in juvenile justice.

Career

Marsha Levick finished the Friends Select School, Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University Law School.
She and three other Temple University Law graduates founded the Juvenile Law Center in 1975.
She had led the Juvenile Law Center litigation before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court related Kids for cash scandal in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
She co-authored child advocates' amicus briefs for a number of cases before the Supreme Court: Roper v. Simmons, Graham v. Florida, J. D. B. v. North Carolina, and Miller v. Alabama and served as a co-counsel in Montgomery v. Louisiana.
She is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Personal

Her father was an oncologist and her mother was a psychologist who founded the first graduate-level art therapy program in the country at Hahnemann University Hospital.
Levick is married to Tom Innis, a Philadelphia public defender. She has two daughters from a previous marriage.

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