| Attorney Zena D. Crenshaw |
Prior to her full time work as a legal reform advocate beginning in 1998, Zena D. Crenshaw engaged in a general civil law practice. The practice consisted primarily of her prosecuting complex, personal injury claims and advising small to medium, for profit as well as nonprofit entities. Today Zena pursues a new passion as Executive Director of National Judicial Conduct and Disability Law Project, Inc. (NJCDLP) NJCDLP is a nonprofit organization combating abuses of the American legal system that are facilitated by judicial misconduct. NJCDLP honors judicial independence while demanding appropriate accountability among judges. It is a leading grassroots, judicial reform advocate. Among NJCDLP’s many accomplishments under Zena's leadership are the cutting edge, good government conferences it hosted at both the historical Watergate Hotel in Washington, D. C. and Rice University in Houston, Texas. [ see: www.njcdlp.org/TheTrail.html ] As NJCDLP’s Executive Director, Zena is a national spokesperson on tactics thwarting properly stated standards for regulating First Amendment activities among lawyers when their criticism of the judiciary or a judicial officer is involved. More on Zena and the personal challenges that brought her to full-time judicial reform advocacy are detailed at www.focus-on-indiana.org |
and a 2008 candidate for its Board of Directors, Zena's work as a human rights advocate primarily took place on a local, regional, and national scale. She co-founded INSPIRED JUSTICE CORPORATION, a citizens’ court watching group in northwest Indiana. Her intro to national good government advocacy on a grassroots level began in 2003 when Zena served briefly as Executive Director for a Virginia based legal reform organization. |
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