Harp selected as the 2025 Charles Dorsey Award recipient

Marilyn Harp received the 2025 Charles Dorsey Award from the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. This award honors an individual who has provided extraordinary and dedicated leadership to both the equal justice community and to organizations that promote access to justice for low-income people. This award is for a leader of a national or statewide organization in civil legal aid. The award is given every other year.

The Charles Dorsey award celebrates the accomplishments of the longtime executive director of the Legal Aid Bureau of Maryland, whose many national leadership roles included service as chair of the Project Advisory Group and as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants.