State LRAP Programs and Contacts
Printer-friendly versionCreated and administered by bar associations, bar foundations, independent nonprofit organizations and state education administrations, 23 states offer loan repayment assistance programs, providing financial aid to public interest lawyers.
The American Bar Association in collaboration with Kelly Carmody of Carmody and Associates maintains a listing of statewide LRAPs. Equal Justice Works thanks the ABA and Kelly Carmody for this information. There are twenty-three statewide loan repayment assistance programs:
| ARIZONA Lara Slifko 4201 N. 24th St., Suite 210 Phoenix, AZ 85016 602-340-7235 602-271-4930 (FAX) Email: lara.slifko@azflse.org Website: www.azflse.org | DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Claudia Withers District of Columbia Bar Foundation 1615 L Street NW, Ste. 850 Washington DC 20036-5622 202-467-3750 202-467-3753 (FAX) Email: withers@dcbarfoundation.org Website: www.dcbarfoundation.org | |||
| FLORIDA Paul Doyle The Florida Bar Foundation 109 East Church Street Orlando, FL 32801 407-843-0045 (FL 800-541-2195) 407-839-0287 (FAX) Email: PDoyle@flabarfndn.org Website: www.flabarfndn.org | INDIANA | |||
| IOWA Brett Toresdahl Iowa State Bar Public Service Project 521 E. Locust, Suite 302 Des Moines, IA 50309 515-244-8617 515-244-8845 (FAX) Email: isbaflp@dwx.com Website: www.isba.org | KENTUCKY | |||
| LOUISIANA Kevin Murphy Louisiana Bar Foundation 601 Saint Charles Avenue, 3rd Floor New Orleans, LA 70130 504-561-1046 (504) 566-1926 (FAX) Email: Kevin@raisingthebar.org Website: www.raisingthebar.org | MAINE M. Calien Lewis Maine Bar Foundation 40 Water Street, 1st Floor Hallowell, ME 04347 207-622-3477 207-623-4140 Email: clewis@mbf.org Website: www.mbf.org/ | |||
| MARYLAND Tamika McKelvin Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program (LARP) Office of Student Financial Assistance Maryland Higher Education Commission State Scholarship Administration 839 Bestgate Road, Suite 400 Annapolis, MD 21401-1781 410-260-4569 or 800-974-1024 Email: tmckelvi@mhec.state.md.us Website: www.mhec.state.md.us | MASSACHUSETTS Lonnie Powers Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation 11 Beacon Street, Suite 820 Boston, MA 02108-3009 617-367-1414 617-367-8815 (fAX) Email: lpowers@mlac.org Website: www.mlac.org | |||
| MINNESOTA Heather Rastorfer Vlieger Loan Repayment Assistance Program of MN (LRAP-MN) 600 Nicollet Mall, Ste 380 Minneapolis, MN 55402 612-278-6315 612-333-4927 (FAX) Email: HeatherRV@statebar.gen.mn.us Website: www.lrapmn.org | MISSOURI Steve Murrell Missouri Bar Foundation/Missouri Bar Association PO Box 119 Jefferson City, MO 65102 573-638-2240 573-635-2811 (FAX) Email: smurrell@mobar.org Website: http://mobar.org/lrap/index.htm | |||
| MONTANA Amy L. Sings in the Timber Montana Justice Foundation PO Box 6169 Missoula, MT 59807-9169 406-523-3920 406-728-7416 (FAX) Email: asings@mtjustice.org Website: www.montanabar.org | NEW HAMPSHIRE David Snyder New Hampshire Bar Foundation 112 Pleasant Street Concord, NH 03301-2931 603-224-6942 603-224-2910 (FAX) Email: dsnyder@nhbar.org Website: www.nhbar.org/ | |||
| NEW MEXICO Tashina Banks Moore New Mexico Higher Education Department 1068 Cerrillos Road Santa Fe, NM 87505-1650 505-476-6549 505-476-6511 (fax) Email: Tashina.banks-moore@state.nm.us Website: http://fin.hed.state.nm.us/ | NEW YORK Gloria Herron Arthur New York State Bar Association One Elk Street Albany, NY 12207 518-487-5640 518-487-5694 (FAX) Email: garthur@nysba.org Website: http://www.nysba.org/slapi | |||
| NORTH CAROLINA Esther Hall North Carolina Legal Education Assistance Fund 6070- J Six Forks Road Raleigh, North Carolina 27615 919-845-6089 919-848-9259 (FAX) Email: ehall@ncleaf.org Website: http://www.ncleaf.org | OHIO Chuck Cook Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation 10 West Broad Street, Suite 950 Columbus OH 43215 614-728-5396 614-728-3749 (FAX) Email: ccook@olaf.org Website: www.olaf.org | |||
| OREGON Cathy Petrecca Oregon State Bar 16037 SW Upper Boones Ferry Road P.O. Box 231935 Tigard, Oregon 97281-1935 503-431-6355 503-684-1366 (FAX) Email: cpetrecca@osbar.org Website: www.osbar.org | SOUTH CAROLINA Shannon Scruggs South Carolina Bar Foundation PO Box 608 Columbia, SC 29202-0608 803-799-6653 803-799-4118 (FAX) Email: shannon.scruggs@scbar.org Website: www.scbar.org | |||
| TEXAS Lisa Melton Special Projects Manager Texas Access to Justice Foundation P.O. Box 12886 Austin, Texas 78711 281 785 5759 Email: ldmelton@teajf.org Website: www.teajf.org | VERMONT Deborah Bailey Vermont Bar Foundation PO Box 1170 Montpelier, VT 05601-1170 802-223-1400 Email: dbailey@vtbarfndn.org Website: www.vtbarfndn.org | |||
| WASHINGTON Paula Littlewood Deputy Director Washington State Bar Association 206-239-2120 206-727-8319 (FAX) Email: PaulaL@wsba.org Website: www.wsba.org |
Program Characteristics: Almost all state loan repayment assistance programs (LRAPs) require recipients to be practicing law in “qualifying employment” within the state. Characteristics of state LRAPs vary, but definitions of “qualifying employment” in all states include civil legal aid and in some states include public defense, prosecution and other government and nonprofit legal organization work.