LISETTE M. MCCORMICK, ESQUIRE

Attorney McCormick is currently serving as the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission for Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness where she directs the implementation of recommendations from the 2003 study on racial and gender bias by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Prior to directing the Interbranch Commission work, Attorney McCormick served as the director of the Supreme Court Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice System. An honors graduate of The Pennsylvania State University, Attorney McCormick received her J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law in 1981. She has had a long career in public service, serving as a staff attorney for the Neighborhood Legal Services Association and the Allegheny County Public Defender’s Office immediately after graduation from law school. She also served as Assistant Counsel and Deputy Attorney General for the Toxic Waste Unit of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Attorney McCormick spent nine years in private practice with the law firm of Tabakin, Carroll and Curtin in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, focusing on environmental counseling and plaintiff’s employment litigation. She is a frequent lecturer on the findings of the Supreme Court study on racial and gender bias and also serves as an adjunct professor at Duquesne University School of Law. Attorney McCormick is an active member of the Allegheny County Bar Association where she serves as a member of the Judiciary Committee, the chair-elect of the Women in the Law Division, co-chair of the Diversity Committee and a member of the Allegheny County Bar Foundation. Attorney McCormick’s community service includes membership on the Board of Directors of The Program for Female Offenders, and serving as a volunteer attorney for victims of domestic violence through the Neighborhood Legal Services Association Program. She recently was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts. Attorney McCormick is married to Attorney James W. Carroll, Jr. and is the mother of three children.  

Updated February 27, 2008