Carolyn Norton

Carolyn Norton is the Interim Chief of Litigation & Advocacy at Legal Services NYC. In this role, Carolyn leads LSNYC’s strategic advocacy on behalf of low-income New Yorkers; by initiating and overseeing high impact and complex civil litigation and working closely with advocates and community groups to engage in thoughtful and cutting-edge policy advocacy.

Carolyn recently returned to Legal Services NYC after working at an environmental advocacy organization in New England, where she developed and supervised groundbreaking climate-change litigation against the world’s largest oil and gas producers. Prior to this role, Carolyn was the Director of the Bronx Tenant Rights Coalition at Legal Services NYC where she led a large team of attorneys and paralegals working to preserve affordable housing by litigating discrimination, harassment and conditions cases against bad actor landlords in collaboration with community-based organizations. Carolyn previously worked at the Oregon Law Center and Legal Aid Chicago where she represented low-income individuals and groups handling cases involving a wide variety of practice areas including housing, employment, consumer, family and public benefits. Immediately after law school, Carolyn clerked at the Chicago Immigration Court through the U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General’s Honors Program. Carolyn is a graduate of the University of Dayton (B.A), Loyola University Chicago (M.A.) and DePaul University College of Law (J.D.) and a Leadership Fellow Alumna of the Executive Certificate Program at Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs of Baruch College.