Amy Carpenter is currently the Director for Case Management Systems at NLS.  In addition, she is the webmaster for the organization’s website, www.nlsa.us, and handles social media. She is a former Helpline attorney and Intake Coordinator. Prior to joining NLS in 2000, she worked as a staff attorney at Southern Alleghenies Legal Aid in its Altoona office.

Carpenter received a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from American University in 1989, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh in 1995.

She is currently a Fellow of the Allegheny County Bar Foundation, and a past co-chair of the Public Service Committee of the ACBA/ACBF.  She is also a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s House of Delegates for Zone 12.