The Birmingham Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Program was founded in 1995. In 2004, The Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program incorporated, became a 501(c)(3) non-profit agency, moved from Legal Services of Metro Birmingham and set up a new office at the Birmingham Bar Center.
Founding Committee
- Melinda Waters, Esquire, 1st Alabama State Bar Volunteer Lawyers Program Director
- Kimberly Oliver Ward, Esquire, 2nd Alabama State Bar Volunteer Lawyers Program Director
- LaBella S. Alvis, Esquire, Chair
- Joseph S. Bird, Esquire
- David B. Chaplin, Esquire
- Kenneth R. Cain, Jr., Esquire, Executive Director, Legal Services of Metro Birmingham
- Beth C. Carmichael, Executive Director, Birmingham Bar Association
- Douglass I. Friedman, Esquire
- Norman Jetmundson, Esquire
- Phyllis T. Paramore, Esquire
- Laura E. Proctor, Esquire
- Michael R. Silberman, Esquire
- Courtnay L. Stallings, Esquie
- Arnold W. Umbach, Esquire
- Jesse S. Vogtle, Esquire
