Andy Block, legal director of JustChildren, a program of the Legal Aid Justice Society, is the first recipient of the Virginia Bar Association’s Robert E. Sheperd Jr. Award.
Block started JustChildren in 1998 and the center is now the largest children’s law program in Virginia.
According to a press release, Sheperd, who died last December, helped him secure the Soros Justice Fellowship with which JustChildren was created.
Read C-VILLE’s 2007 profile of Block here.
Andy Block received the Robert E. Sheperd Jr. Award for this work at JustChildren.