By Claire Luby-Colton
Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio
Erin Cunniff Childs, Esq., President & CEO of Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio (PBPO) has been selected by the Ohio Women’s Bar Association as the recipient of the 2024 Leading the Way Award.
The Ohio Women’s Bar Association’s Leading the Way Award annually recognizes one outstanding female attorney in Ohio who has demonstrated exemplary leadership in the legal profession and her community, has rendered services to improve the administration of justice, and has helped pave the way for women in the legal profession by inspiring and mentoring other women to raise their performance to the same high standard.
“Erin Childs is eminently worthy of this award,” said Susan Street Whaley, PBPO Board Chair and Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Procter & Gamble. “Erin truly leads the way in engaging legal professionals in their communities and empowering nonprofit organizations to achieve their missions.”
Childs received her award at a statewide event, hosted by the Ohio Women’s Bar Foundation, on January 18, 2024, at Roetzel & Andress in Akron, Ohio.
Childs was hired as the inaugural Executive Director of PBPO when it was founded in Cincinnati in 2014. Under Childs’ leadership, PBPO has provided over 375 Cincinnati and Dayton area nonprofit organizations with free business legal services and has engaged over 1,000 of the region’s attorneys as volunteers. Childs’ efforts have helped nonprofits access quality legal services valued at over $10 million.
Childs received her J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She is a graduate of Leadership Cincinnati, Class 43.
Since its founding in 2014, PBPO has served over 375 nonprofit organizations, advised on over 2,700 unique legal matters, engaged 1,000 attorneys as volunteers, and provided nonprofits with legal services and education valued at over $10 MM. For more information, visit pbpohio.org.
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