Part-time Faculty
Mary Elizabeth Burns
Biography
Mary Burns is Community Projects Director for Lead Safe Housing Initiatives at the ChildLaw Center. She graduated from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame Indiana and received her J.D. degree from Northwestern University School of Law. In 1987 she joined the Cook County Office of the Public Guardian, where she represented children in the Child Protection Division and in the Domestic Relations Division of the Office, where she was supervising attorney. She has served on many committees of the Circuit Court, including the committee to revise the circuit court rules for the Domestic Relations Division and the advisory committee to the Presiding Judge for the selection of applicants to the list of attorneys serving as Child Representatives. She came to Loyola in 2004, where, in addition to her work on childhood lead paint poisoning prevention, she has taught courses in childlaw at the Law School and in the Masters in Jurisprudence program.
| Education: | B.A. cum laude, St. Mary's, 1962 M.A., Divinity School, University of Chicago, 1975 J.D., Northwestern, 1984 |
| Present Position: | Director of Community Projects, Lead Safe Housing Initiative, Civitas ChildLaw Center, Loyola University Chicago School of Law |
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| Contact: | 25 East Pearson Street Room 1112 Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 915-6811 mburns6@luc.edu |
