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Keeshea Turner Roberts

Civil Protection Order Project
Co-Director
Washington, DC
Keeshea Turner Roberts is the Co-Director of the Civil Protection Order Project (CPOP) and a Supervising Attorney in our Civil Division. Prior to joining LSIC, Keeshea was a managing attorney at Neighborhood Legal Services Program (NLSP). At NLSP, she supervised staff attorneys, legal fellows, legal externs and interns, and on-loan law firm associates in the family law and public benefits practices. In addition to supervising and teaching law students, Ms. Turner Roberts manages and supervises pro bono and staff attorneys at the Civil Protection Order Project at D.C. Superior Court.

Keeshea is a member of the D.C. Bar's John Payton Leadership Academy Class of 2017. The John Payton Leadership Academy is an intensive training program for members who are interested in developing their leadership skills and learning more about the D.C. Bar and its leadership opportunities. The goal of the Leadership Academy is to identify, inspire, and educate D.C. Bar members to be leaders of the Bar and to encourage them to use their leadership skills in professional settings, local bar associations, and community organizations.

Keeshea received her J.D. from The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law and her B.A. in History from Hollins University (formerly Hollins College). While in law school, she interned at numerous legal organizations including the United States Department of Justice (Violence Against Women Office), ACLU for the National Capitol Area, and the Alexandria and Fairfax Virginia Public Defender Offices. During her third year of law school, Keeshea was a student-attorney at LSIC, where she represented clients with misdemeanor cases. After graduating from law school, she served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorables Janet Albert, Andrea L. Harnett, and Richard Ringell, Magistrate Judges for the Superior Court for the District of Columbia.