Faculty Profile: Debra House

Debra House is the Executive Director of Legal Aid of East Tennessee. She has been with LAET for 33 years and has concentrated her poverty law practice primarily in the areas of family and juvenile law. Deb is a member of the Knoxville and Tennessee Bar Associations and is the Past Chair of the TBA Access to Justice Committee. She currently serves on the House of Delegates of the TBA and co-chairs the KBA Access to Justice Committee. She also is past chair of the Juvenile and Children's Law section and the Family Law section. Deb is also a past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services as well as a past President of the East Tennessee Lawyer's Association for Women and has served on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Lawyer's Association for Women. 
Deb also spends time training and teaching others. She has been part of a training consortium to train mediators in the legal aspects of domestic violence. Deb was also the Charles H. Miller Visiting Professor of Clinical Programs at the University of Tennessee College of Law where she developed and taught a clinical mediation program and where she has served as an adjunct professor teaching a negotiation and ADR course. Deb received her BS degree from Western Michigan University and her law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law.

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