Marsha Levick
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Marsha Levick is a lawyer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She is a co-founder and Chief Legal Officer of the Juvenile Law Center[1] and recognized as a leading expert in juvenile justice.[2][3][4]
Marsha Levick finished the Friends Select School, Pennsylvania[3] and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University Law School.[1]
She and three other Temple University Law graduates founded the Juvenile Law Center in 1975.[3][5]
She had led the Juvenile Law Center litigation before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court related Kids for cash scandal in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.[2][1]
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.[1]
She is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Temple University Beasley School of Law.[6]
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.[3]
Levick is married to Tom Innis, a Philadelphia public defender.[3] She has two daughters from a previous marriage.
Notable cases
- Pennsylvania Kids for cash scandal: Levick represented juveniles in two of several class action suits.[7][8]