Valerie L’Herrou serves as staff attorney in our Center for Family Advocacy, focusing on family law and child welfare issues. Prior to coming to VPLC, Valerie served as Director of Career Development for Public Sector Careers with the University of Richmond School of Law, and as an Assistant Public Defender with the Office of the Public Defender in Charlottesville for seven years. She has worked for six years at the state coalition of sexual assault crisis centers. She was appointed by Governor McAuliffe to the Commonwealth Council on Aging in 2014, and serves on the Virginia State Bar Special Committee on Access to Legal Services, serves on the Permanency Subcommittee of the Child Welfare Advisory Committee.