The Maryland Legal Services Corporation (MLSC) board of directors elected M. Natalie McSherry, principal at Kramon & Graham PA, as its chair at its September 26 meeting. McSherry is the first woman in MLSC’s 36-year history to hold this position.

“We are thrilled to have Natalie as our newest board chair,” says Susan Erlichman, MLSC Executive Director. “Natalie has been an active and valuable member of the MLSC board, and we are fortunate to have her leadership as the civil legal services delivery system in Maryland continues to evolve.”

“I am looking forward to helping maintain the tradition of MLSC in its leadership role in Maryland legal services. Our staff and board have long been recognized as national leaders in this field, and it is a real honor to serve with them to continue to work to meet the legal needs of Marylanders who otherwise could not afford counsel or have meaningful access to justice,” says McSherry.

McSherry is a nationally recognized trial lawyer with more than 40 years of experience in commercial litigation and health care law. She is a graduate of Manhattanville College and the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

McSherry has served on the MLSC board since 2012 and succeeds Glenn Ivey as board chair. She was recently awarded The Daily Record’s Leadership in Law Lifetime Achievement Award and also serves on the boards of the Maryland Bar Foundation, St. Ignatius Loyola Academy, and Woodsboro Bank.

MLSC’s mission is to ensure low-income Marylanders have access to stable, efficient and effective civil legal assistance through the distribution of funds to nonprofit legal services organizations. Since the Maryland General Assembly established the organization in 1982, MLSC has made grants totaling over $270 million to help provide services in nearly 3 million legal matters for Maryland’s families in areas of family, housing, consumer, employment and other civil legal matters. For more information, visit MLSC.org.